THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
not be less, but greater than of old. Spiri-tuality is not necessarily exclusive ; it can be and in its fullness must be all-inclusive. But still there is a great difference be-tween the spiritual and the purely mate-rial and mental view of existence. The spiritual view holds that the mind, life, body are man’s means and not his aims and even that they are not his last and highest means ; it sees them as his outer instrumental self and not his whole being. It sees the infinite behind all things finite and it adjudges the value of the finite by higher infinite values of which they are the imperfect translation and towards which, to a truer expression of them, they are always trying to arrive. It sees a greater reality than the apparent not only behind man and the world, but within man and the world, and this soul, self, divine thing in man it holds to be that in him which is of the highest importace, that which everything else in him must try in whatever way to bring out and
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