BOOK JUNGLE | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

For western scholars the great religious scriptures of India seem to possess merely a retrospective and archeological interest. But to us they are of living importance, and we cannot help thinking that they lose their significance when exhibited in labeled cases, mummied specimens of human thought and aspiration, preserved for all time in the wrappings of erudition. The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation. The teachings of Buddha and the verses of the Upanishads have ever been things of the spirit, and therefore endowed with boundless vital growth.