The Light of the East August 1939

Has he climbed all the religious " scaffoldings " in turn and found out by experience that each landed him into the ineffable presence of God ? Has he practised all the various sadhanas and experienced all their siddhis ; followed the way of Islam and at the end discovered the majesty of Allah ; that of the Jews and stood in the awful presence of Yahveh that of the Christians and found himself f [...] But first what is myticism and how is it attained ? Is it the vidv7nanubhava of the Advaitin the punt nza firema of the Bliakta the nirvana of the Buddhist the submission of the Muslim the active surrender of the Chritian ? And what way leads to it : jnana bhakti karma the eightfold path the five pillars of Islam or the Christian commanments and counsels of perfection ? You may [...] For him the attainment of the nirguna Brahman by vidya THE LIGHT OF THE EAST 153"is but a preparatory and not even necessary step : the ultimate means is love and the attainment that of the Bhagavat endowed with all the auspicious qualities. [...] The true 154 THE LIGHT OF THE EAST"servant of God however cares as little for them as the true soldier cares for ribbons and medals What the soldier ambitions is the victory of his king; what the religious man aims at is the glory of his God. [...] We believe in other words that company capitalism Fascism and Socialism are merely variations of the same evil and that all depend on a flat denial of the dignify of the individual man and of the priority of the family to the State...