The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 8 (of 20); Journal II, 1850-September 15, 1851
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By Henry David Thoreau
19 Sep, 2019
Excerpt..........The Hindoos are more serenely and thoughtfully religious than the Hebrews. They have perhaps a purer, more independent and impersonal knowledge of God. Their religious books describe the first inquisitive and contemplative access to
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Excerpt..........The Hindoos are more serenely and thoughtfully religious than the Hebrews. They have perhaps a purer, more independent and impersonal knowledge of God. Their religious books describe the first inquisitive and contemplative access to God; the Hebrew bible a conscientious return, a grosser and more personal repentance. Repentance is not a free and fair highway to God. A wise man will dispense with repentance. It is shocking and passionate. God prefers that you approach him thoughtful, not penitent, though you are the chief of sinners. It is only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to him.
The calmness and gentleness with which the Hindoo philosophers approach and discourse on forbidden themes is admirable.
What extracts from the Vedas I have read fall on me like the light of a higher and purer luminary, which describes a loftier course through a purer stratum,—free from particulars, simple, universal. It rises on me like the full moon after the stars have come out, wading through some far summer stratum of the sky.
The Vedant teaches how, “by forsaking religious rites,” the votary may “obtain purification of mind.”
One wise sentence is worth the state of Massachusetts many times over.
The Vedas contain a sensible account of God.
The religion and philosophy of the Hebrews are those of a wilder and ruder tribe, wanting the civility and intellectual refinements and subtlety of the Hindoos. Less
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