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The Religion of Vedanta <\/font><\/b>
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If it were asked by anyone what is this multitudinous, shifting,
\nexpanding, apparently amorphous or at all events multimorphous sea of religious thought, feeling, philosophy, spiritual
\nexperience we call Hinduism, what it is characteristically and essentially, we might answer in one word, the religion of Vedanta.
\nAnd if it were asked what are the Hindus with their unique and persistent difference from all other races, we might again
\nanswer, the children of Vedanta. For at the root of all that we Hindus have done, thought and said through these thousands
\nof years of our race-history, behind all we are and seek to be, there lies concealed, the fount of our philosophies, the bedrock
\nof our religions, the kernel of our thought, the explanation of our ethics and society, the summary of our civilisation, the rivet
\nof our nationality, this one marvellous inheritance of ours, the Vedanta. Nor is it only to Hindu streams that this great source
\nhas given of its life-giving waters. Buddhism, the teacher of one third of humanity, drank from its inspiration. Christianity, the
\noffspring of Buddhism, derived its ethics and esoteric teaching at second-hand from the same source. Through Persia Vedanta put
\nits stamp on Judaism, through Judaism, Christianity and Sufism on Islam, through Buddha on Confucianism, through Christ and
\nmediaeval mysticism and Catholic ceremonial, through Greek and German philosophy, through Sanscrit learning and [sentence<\/i>
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