SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

THE NATURE OF THE DIVINE PERSONALITY. 43
is for those whose goal
is perfect rest in perfect freedom."
The presumption
is in supposing that all other religionists,
except those of our learned brother s ilk, do not postulate a
Brahman, and that their path, not being the Soham path
(Paramahajmsa) will not lead one to Moksha and it is
; also an
unwarranted presumption in trying to restrict the use of the
word God to what these people were now till calling the lower
Brahman or Saguna Brahman or Personal God. The so-called
Vedantists have an insidious way of recommending themselves
to the favour of other people by bestowing judiciously, a pane
gyric here and a panegyric there, and, at the same time, they
try to raise themselves above the shoulders of these others, and
at the latter s expense. They profess to be full of the milk of
human kindness to professors of all creeds and sects, and would
willingly take them under their folds, what for? Only, so that
these people may see that what they profess to teach is the
only true path containing the only truth, and that the other
paths are well only no paths at all only it will bring them
to the same point of birth and death, containing a so-called a
phenomenal truth. And then what is the truth of these people
worth after all ? In itself, it is so shaky, or they maul it
so badly in their attempt to please every body that their
truth (substance) becomes indistinguishable from untruth
(phenomena) ; and this is
exactly what the Svami s Guru, the
Paramahamsa, the Mahatman says. God the Saguna
the; Personal God is Maya or Sakti, indistinguishable as heat
from fire and this God or Maya is as such one with Brahman,
and so the distinction of Personal and Impersonal God is I
a distinction without a difference. (Prabhudda Bhcirata
p. 109) ! ! It will be seen from a reading of the Rev. Father s
article, and from how these words are used in the Brahmavddin
and the Prabhudda Bharata, that all these parties use the
word Saguna as fully equivalent to Personal, and Nirguna as *
equivalent to Impersonal Being ;
and a shade has never crossed
thele learned people s minds whether such rendering is quite
the truth.