ID The Religion of the: Vcda

sun-called rcligien in India: Brahmrmical himmhyi samrdmtnlism, alsccticixm, came ; infinittsiy iliwmifiuil polythuism 21ml idulatry: crurzl mligimm px~‘.ictircr~;; and bottm'nlcss Superstitiun. All tliifi ilm highnr Hindu ruligimm, or rather mligimm phiirmnphim. blow away as; thc: wind clams chaff. In thuir vigw 311$]! religiosity is; mart: illusion hr igrmzrmm, in mm: {mm which is: their profussaimz. But: 1.11:3}? can mm: {ml}? the illuminad nf mind. Or: the 1'ch lift: hf India, the great philosaphicr. are mcmly :1. thin film... Anyhmv they have not as yet punctratcd 1:1me 1:0 lillfl' liinclu pcopla, and we: may questihn whuthm India's; fialvnw tion will come that way, rather than thrrmgh tin: growth 0f social and political intelligence which 5r) gifted a. people is sum, in the long run, tr} nhtain.

T he student of the History 0f Raligimm has; gmmi reason to think 0f India as the: land of rcligirms in yet another sense. Not cmly has India produced out: of its own mental resenrcms many iznpmtan’c religions and theosophic systems, but it has carried on these proccsaess continuausly, uninterrupted by distracting outside influences. The Maghul con-v quests; in Northern India intraduced Molmmmcdrmu ism to a. limited extent, and Mohammedanism fused with Hinduism in the hybrid religion of the Sikhs. A small number of Zoroastrian Parsis, driven fmm Persia during the Mohammedan conquest, found

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