"…We not only tolerate, but we Hindus accept every religion,
praying in the mosque of the Mohammedans, worshipping before the
fire of the Zoroastrians, and kneeling before the cross of the
Christians, knowing that all the religions, from the lowest
fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the
human soul to grasp and realise the infinite, each determined by
the conditions of its birth and association, and each of them
marking a stage of progress. We gather all these flowers and bind
them with the twine of love, making a wonderful bouquet of
worship."