India, Its Life and Thought (Classic Reprint)

To the people of theW est, the inhabitants of India are the least understood and the most easily misunderstood of all men. It is partly because they are antipodal to theW est the farthest removed in thought and life. They fare also the most secretive, and find perennial delight in concealment and evasion. According to Hindu teaching, theS upreme Spirit os forever sports in illusion. It continuously manifests 1itself through unreal and false forms, which delude and lead astray ignorant man. In harmony with this philosophy of theD ivine and may it not be as a -result of it? the people of India too often delight in unreal and deceptive exhibitions of themselves. At any rate, it is exceedingly difficult for a man of theW est, especially he of the A nglo-S axon type, to apprehend the full significance and the correct drift of life and thought of this land. It is amusing, when not discouraging, to witness travellers, who have rushed through India in a winter tour, publish volumes of their misconceptions and illdigested theories about the people with an oracular emphasis which is equalled only by their ignorance.
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