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Indian religion cannot be described by any of the definitions
known to the occidental intelligence. In its totality it has
been a free and tolerant synthesis of all spiritual worship and
experience. Observing the one Truth from all its many sides,
it shut out none. It gave itself no specific name and bound
itself by no limiting distinction. Allowing separative designa-
tions for its constituting cults and divisions, it remained itself
nameless, formless, universal, infinite, like the Brahman of its
agelong seeking. Although strikingly distinguished from other
creeds by its traditional scriptures, cults and symbols, it is not
in its essential character a credal religion at all but a vast and
many-sided, an always unifying and always progressive and
self-enlarging system of spiritual culture.
CWSA 20: 193 Sri Aurobindo
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