THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
the long torpid Musalman mass in India. Perhaps none of these forms, nor all the sum of them be definitive, they may constitute only the preparatory self-finding of the Indian spiritual mind recovering its past and turning towards its future India is the meeting-place of the religion- and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realisation and aspiration. What will finallv come out of all this stir and ferment, lies yet in the future. There has been an introduction of fresh fruitful impulses to activity : there has been much revival of the vitality of old forms, a new study, rehabilitation, resort to old disciplines and old authorities and scriptures, —we may note that Vedanta, Veda, Parana, Yoga, and recently the same thing is being initiated with regard to the Tantra, have each in their turn
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