ABSTRACT
Hindu philosophy and religious mysticism are certainly much older than Christian thought; and, although the minutiae of theological exegesis may reveal a multitude of incompatible differences, there is a wealth of common ground to be revealed between Eastern and Western thought. There may certainly be no literary connection between Johannine thought and the quotation from the Vedas above, but it is equally certain that there is a spiritual and intuitive connection. The insights of the deeply religious are not the prerogative of any particular country or of any individual generation; they belong to every race and every age. The proposition is, quite simply, that the differences are frequently more patent and obtrusive, and therefore divisive. Tolerance, real tolerance, is born of knowledge, understanding, sympathetic awareness, and a sense of unity – not of a generalized, ignorant and aphoristic attitude of ‘live and let live’.
