In previous ages, contacts between different religions
partook of an “accidental” character.
The attitude of the religions that have sprung from the
Semitic stem is to exclude the possibility of others spirituality. For the
Indian traditions, a plurality of spiritual paths is taken for granted.
The Eastern openness of mind does not indicate any kind of
doctrinal laxity. This attitude of practical tolerance is an expression of
traditional orthodoxy, not of its absence.
For the modern man, the idea of religious toleration goes
hand in hand with a religious indifference, which is not a gain.
There is a relationship uniting form as such to the formless
Truth.
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