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The Ninth Lesson: The Religions of India. Part I.1293
The Ninth Lesson: The Religions of India. Part I.
India has ever been the Land of Religions. From her sources have emerged
the streams that have traveled to far and distant lands, there to be known
by other names, the original source having been lost sight of, or else denied
when men have tried to trace the connection and relationship. Modern
research along the lines of Comparative Religions has explored the long
rivers of Religious Conceptions, and there are but few of the great rivers
of the dominant religious conceptions that are not known to have their
origin in some conception of a Hindu mind centuries back. Even as in some
cases, where the river of thought seems to emerge suddenly from the
ground, springing from some unknown depths and apparently furnishing
an exception to the rule of original source—even in such cases, careful
research will show that still further back some river of Hindu thought has
disappeared in an underground cave, thence wending its way onward,
silently and unobserved, only to emerge into new activity at some far
different point, where it is given a new name, only an analysis of its waters
and a careful study of directions and geological formation giving the earnest
investigator the clue.
The various philosophies, of which the principal ones compose the Six
Great Systems of India, are based upon the Fundamental Philosophy of