Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas Including Selections from his Writings

The most thoughtful and sensitive natures among the Hindus who live thus on the edge of the great deserts of Asia have no difficulty in appreciating the mystical side of Islam and its absorbing central truth of the unity and majesty of God. [...] There is a strangeness about every mood and tone of worship as well as in the words of the sacred texts of Scripture and the revealed doctrines held to be orthodox.'.An easy way of realizing this is to consider the instance of a Hindu reading certain passages of the Old Testament for the first time; or being told about the Holy Communion %mice with its consecrated elements of bread and wine re [...] Paul's doctrine of election and predestination or the clauses in the Creed concerning the Descent into Hell the Ascension into Heaven and the Resurrection of the Body. [...] The appeal of the lower order of creation is all the more forcible because it is speechlesgi 'Cow Protection' is the gift of Hinduism to the world4 and Hinduism will live so long as there are Hindus to protect the cow. [...] He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith; and since faith itself cannot be proved by extraneous evidence the safest course is to believe in the moral government of the world and therefore in the supremacy of the moral law the law of Truth and Love.