Excerpt from India: Its Life and Thought
To the people of the West, the inhabitants of India are the least understood and the most easily misunderstood of all men.
It is partly because they are antipodal to the West - the farthest removed in thought and life. They are also the most secretive, and find perennial delight in concealment and evasion.
According to Hindu teaching, the Supreme Spirit forever sports in illusion. It continuously manifests itself through unreal and false forms, which delude and lead astray ignorant man. In harmony with this philosophy of the Divine - and may it not be as a result of it? - the people of India too often delight in unreal and deceptive exhibitions of themselves. At any rate, it is exceedingly difficult for a man of the West, especially he of the Anglo-Saxon type, to apprehend the full significance and the correct drift of life and thought of this land.
It is amusing, when not discouraging, to witness travellers, who have rushed through India in a winter tour, publish volumes of their misconceptions and ill-digested theories about the people with an oracular emphasis which is equalled only by their ignorance.
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