Book

You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is book. The power of book is simply marvelous! whatever it be, the book is center round which human allegiance gathers. Not one religion is living today but has a book. With all its rationalism and tall talk, humanity still clings to the books. In our nation every attempt to start a religion without a book has failed at present and India sects rise with great success, but within a few years they die down because there is no book behind them.So in every other country. Study the rise and fall of the Unitarian movement. It represents the best thought of your nation. Why should it not have spread like the Methodist, Baptist and other Christian denominations. Because there was no book. On the other hand, think of the jews. A handful of men, driven from one country to another, still hold together because they have book. Think of the Parsis - only a hundred thousand in the world. About a million are all that remain of the jains in India.And do you know that these handful of jains and Parsis still keep on, just because of their book. The religions that are living at the present day - every one of them has a book. "