Show 11 I I a YnCh t I AI LIJo trrl Luc iusiu d f erra rlt q Ita i 1s + s ra vn c i a t M t b 3 f r r t y i a1 a a s Irk y I tS t G 1 Y t f V 1 1lspyS r 1 ar + 7 f i c E lJs it fjt1 + a q trt irsia t 4Fflp tiff qty ar b rlrr 4 u 1 r r 8ABA C3HARATI Far fast Is east nnd west Is west And never the twain shall meet It Is not improbable that Rudyard ping saw the gulf dividing the two ivlllzations In Ills early acquaintance hip with Baba Dharatl when both ere journalists In India It is cor aln that Bhurati saw It for he cameo came-o the Occident avowedly to study the osslbllltlcs of bridging it Now after Ive years among us he has gone back o his own people never he says to eturn And with his perspective of time old ideals of civilization and dls aterestcdness Baba Bharati citizen if t tho universe ascetic philosopher ad apostle of the purely spiritual lIe sees war Impending between east d west a war not of tho west against the yellow peril but of the ast against what ho calls the white CTll of aggressiveness and material sm The Orient will rise and drive the J thlte man forth This will happen in cry few years By 1915 I believe Us conflict will bo well under way his Is my own prophecy but I find hat Lafcadlo Hearn made virtually 5 be same forecast some years ago It fs s tho White Peril from which we safer j fer In the OrientCaucasian aggres e Iveness and soulkilling civilization J Such was Bharatls iwtlng message I o tho western world aba Father Bharati Is not to be confounded with the type of picaresque pic-aresque Hindu charlatans who with pproprlate scenery and costumes have I oaio to America from time to time I o wheedle dollars from silly women and men who wear thumb rings His j sponsors were men of like standing with Hev Dr R Heber Newton Prof Charles II Lanman of Harvard and Dr Pfllx Adler of the Ethical Culture society He is a Brahmin of the first order His father was a magistrate I nd hiD uncle a judge of the high j ourt of Calcutta Twenty years ago he was editor of the Lahore Tribune when Kipling was a newspaper writer I there Later he became the editor and proprietor of a society paper In Calcutta Then his religious Instincts j asserted themselves and for 12 years he became an ascetic a hermit living I a life of austere simplicity In Brlnda ban most holy of Indias holy lands While hero ho met the great Jogee of arada a giant In stature and be I Ilevcl to bo the most spiritual man In i India Under his teachings Haba Ubaratl came to believe that ho had a message to carry to the Caucasian t Iorlll Ho did not wish to go and for a time he struggled against what ho deemed a command from on high I Then he went forth and now he regards re-gards his work well done lIe Is Imp W In the thought of return yet has Darned to love the American people and feels pangs of regret at leaving them forever Ihoni The Orient for Orientals I rgo of frame with the pivyer loth of his Krishna yellow and In Wii 1 with wondrous words to the I a faith wound around his turban Ion raven black curls dropping down about his shoulders with an eye as clear as Hhenish wine and a face of Peculiarly benign mien yet strongly thlalled combining as It does a cer faun itcqujred western vigor with the Placidity and calmness of the Orient Daha Blmiatl is a striking figure Ho has studied the Occident and Its ways aDd declares that the aggression the tremendous conceit and the blindness ct the white race are going to bring about the uprlulng of all Asiathat Ala will be free at taat I from domina tion and oppression by foreign hands and that a new Monroe doctrine will be called into being and the Orient will be for the Orientals alone The western coast Just now Is aroused over the Hindu Peril as it is called Hundreds even thousands of Hindus are coming across tho Pacific Pa-cific and the western states and western west-ern Canada fear a very deluge So great has been the feeling In some places that the white laborers have driven the dusky invaders out as tho Chinese were sent forth from certain western cities in early days But Baba Bharati declares there Is no such thIng as tho Hindu Peril It Is rather the Japanese Peril on this side of the Pacific or the White Peril on the other side of tho ocean The Hindus that come to the American shore are really not Hindus In the common acceptance of the term ritVpr they are halt Hindus slkhs from Upper India with a different differ-ent relit m and different ideas said Baba Bharati in an interview I had with him at the Hotel Stander Just before be-fore tb Minnesota sailed lIe contln tied There Is no cause to fear an Invasion for only a few of the sikhs will come And they are not an aggress ag-gress vo people If they find they are not wanted they will not cross the Pacific Pa-cific There Is no cause to fear The Hindu philosopher and sage talked for an hour or more on this western world we know his eastern world religion literature modern conditions his own life and expert ences his hopes ambitions and made predictions of such amazing nature regarding the future readjustment at relations across the Pacific as to startle any person who thinks on the shadows that portend coming events In this Interview he summed up a message mes-sage ho wished to convey in farewell to the America ho is leaving Spirituality Not for Sale The Now York Herald gave me and my mission most helpful publicity and then followed my first success since leaving my own shores I was to lecture ThUty persons came to bear me and when I had finished speaking they placed upon the table 30 In 1 money I almost wept Then I explained ex-plained that a Hindu cannot take coin for sustenance ho gives either to the soul body or the souIJ One can travel all through my country without being able to buy cooked food and spiritualIty spiritual-Ity Is not for barter and sale either This was merely the mistake of commercialized America These New Yorkers thought In their simple way that money could pay for anything Yet I found them warm hearted and altogether lovable just ag all other Americans are When they can bo halted for a few moments In their mad pursuit of gold they have admirable admir-able natures I find The trouble with America Is that It 1 is building on a material plane It 1 is making tremendous progress In all things material but we of tho Orient understand the spiritual We live not for today but for all time and who you forget tho soul as you do you are making a sad mistake Your modern Churchianlty Is spoiling your Christianity Chris-tianity Your ministers of the gospel want more spirituality They do not elevato themselves above the level of tho visible material world Your much vaunted progress counts for naught You look at life on tho surface we of the Orient look at it In Its depth in the cool and quiet places where there Is no turbulence and no mad U I scramble America li I afflicted with national nervousness as I call it In certain directions you call It frenzied finance I see it in eve burro of life I observe It whero ilo not suppose It exists In India religion Is the chief bust loss of life All else Is subordinate It is tho true anchor of the Hindu In ho morning ho arises and after his bath ho gives up two hours to spiritual spirit-ual thought and contemplation least two hours Then ho looks after the needs of his body All else Is subordinate sub-ordinate to this reverence for tho Creator and those things which typify and represent Him Christianity Sublime Christianity In Its teachings is sublime I preach Christ as much as I do my Krishna who represents tome to-me the great Incarnation of God God Is love as Christ says and that is all hero Is to any religion Tho Bible which I respect and love is merely a page from the Vedas of India They contain all Its truths and more But you can see only your own religion I can see the good of all When I became an ascetic In India I lost my nationality and became a cltl zon of tho Universe I love all people When I was in London oven I felt a deep heart Interest In the Briton even though ho is oppressng my people peo-ple I did not come to America to thrust my religion upon you I came to advance ad-vance spirituality In whatever form I find it Yet you send your missionaries mission-aries to convert us We cannot help but smile when we are the very incarnation in-carnation of religion ourselves With your religion which Is constantly changing altering with tho currents of new thought you seek rejuvenate rejuven-ate us who are fastened Inseparably to the great deep truths of the universe uni-verse truths which know no mutation muta-tion Wo wonder how we over got along without the helping hand of tho New World missionaries But the truth did come out not long ago and now we know why your missionaries mis-sionaries do come to visit us Someone Some-one closo to your richest man declared that missionaries are the best trade getters There again your commercialism commer-cialism The wine maker calls out I have I the best wines The soap maker calls out My soap Is the best The minister There Is no religion like unto mina It Is pitiful Christianity is reduced to commerciallty Concerning Ater Rockefeller Curious to know what Baba Bharat would say of the richest man In AmerIca Amer-Ica I asked him for his opinion of the president of the Standard 011 company com-pany It Is envy more than anything else that makes the average American condemn con-demn Rockefeller he answered Ho thinks that Rockefeller has some of the millions that he should have Please do not think that I am severe se-vere with Americans I do not mean to be but I cannot help observing how they contrast with us of the far east But to turn to another phase of I modern conditions You In your I materialistic progress have given Uio Orient Implements ot destruction I whllo through all the ages wo gave you naught but peace These weapons weap-ons of warfare the Oriental impersonated Imper-sonated by tho Japanese turned upon the Russian antI tho result was a war tiu like of which Is unknown in history his-tory not a single reverse for tho men of Nippon Those same Japanese with I reawakened China oven greater than Japan and India at tho back of both are going to show the world a conflict that will make nil others pale In comparison com-parison America wants to exploit the whole world but would shut out foreigners from her borders Is it not likely that foreign nations will retaliate And then what answer can America make Tho Mikado Is one of the greatest rulers any nation has produced in modern times When ton years before be-fore tho war with Russia Japan wan deprived of the fruits of her victory over China by tho European powers the Mikado said nothing but complied with apparently good grace Then ho quietly prepared to punish Russia aa the most hated of thoso powers Future events will come about In this way President Roosevelt will suggest to Japan that an exclusion treaty be signed preventing Japanese of the lower classes from entering J f 3 4t Thy OYrettwill rv5Prlaflc4 iiru the Wht f2aa7 l t r n f r v L FMD 1 rr YJ111 I5 11 G sfr < > tW tat e Od e J jmtzrtcaW to hnI cvrploit tho < whoTe > woVlcl VtftWovld lwtouL orcig1rr from her border s The Americans will lead all the white I race In spirituality In tho time to come I went to Kngland I and found I the English too Keltsatisfied and smug I ly contented with themselves to receive re-ceive my message But Americans yet are children from the spiritual viewpoint Your minister who taught only spirituality would bo boycotted I know your literature and I love I It What Is there finer In language than Irving Mark Twain Is the greatest living writer In the world His Following tho Equator Is a wonderful won-derful book Through his works in his humor there runs that thread of tho spiritual that places him high I 1Ul1Q6 aAf great men of lottara j America This will not moot with favor on the other side of tho Pacific but a storm will arise hero which will forco through congress some sort of an exclusion measure The Mikado will still hold his peace but soon after ho will frame a message to be sent to Washington reading something like this You have found it necessary for the protection of your working classes to exclude Japanese from your borders After careful consideration wo find that our country will bo benefited by prohibiting the entry of American trade and a decree Is hereby promulgated promul-gated What could America dQ but accede ac-cede at least for tho time Yet how could such a condition continue The great conflict Is coming rind while I hate to think of It while I regret that peace cannot always prevail still the peoplo of many countries will be benefited bene-fited and those of my own India will bo free This seems n harsh prophecy to make upon leaving America for all time but It is something neither you nor I can control It is the inevitable inevit-able N Y Herald |