THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
our fundamental view of God and man and Nature. There is no real quarrel be- tween them ; for rather these two things need each other to fil themselves in to discover all their own implications, awaken to their own richest and complet- est significances. India can best develop herself and serf humanity by being herself and following: the law of her own nature. This does not mean, as some narrowly and blindly suppose, the rejection of everything new that comes to us in the stream of Time or happens to have been first developed or powerfully expressed by the West. Such an attitude would be intellectually absurd, physically impossible, and above all unspiritual ; true spirituality rejects no new light, no added means or materials of our human self-development. It means simply to keep our centre, our essential way of being, our inborn nature and assimilate to it all we receive, and evolve out of it all we do and create. Religion
83
