A Religion of the Masses

‘Buddhism is pre-eminently a religion of the masses. I do not despair. I do not for one moment think that Buddhism has been banished from India. Every essential characteristic of Buddhism, I see, is being translated into action in India much more perhaps than in China, Ceylon and Japan, which nominally profess Buddhism. I make bold to say that we in India translated Buddhism into action far more and far better then others It is impossible to banish Buddha. You cannot deprive Him of His birth in India. In His own life, He made out for himself an imperishable name. He lives today in the lives of millions of human beings, let each on take for himself as much of the message of the mercy an piety that Buddha came to deliver. We have to translate the message in our own lives, are we fit to pay our homage to that great Loed, master and teacher oaf mankind ? The thought that Buddha gave about 2500 years ago will never vanish ?

‘Buddhism is hundred times more realistic then other religion. It has entered upon the inheritance of objectively and coolly putting up with problems. It came to life after several hundreds of philosophical development, the notion of God is done away with as soon as it appears. Prayer is out of the question, so is asceticism. No categorical imperative. No categorical imperative. No coercion at all, not even within the monastic community. Hence it also does to challenge to fight against those of different faiths. Its teaching turns against nothing so impressively as against the feeling of revengefulness, animosity and resentment.”