Religious Problem in India

Author(s): Annie Besant
Publisher: Theosophist Office Adyar

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THE RELIGIOUS PROBLEM IN INDIA
of the thronging of enemies around him. But there is one scene so beautiful that I must stop a moment upon it. There has been a battle and a victory, and the spoil has been divided; and those who have followed him longest have not shared the spoils, and there is anger and complaint, and he speaks:
“Ye Ansār, I have learnt the discourse ye hold among yourselves. When I came amongst you, you were wandering in darkness, and the Lord gave yon the right direction; you were suffering, and he made you happy; at enmity among yourselves, and He has filled your hearts with brotherly love and concord. Was it not so, tell me?" "Indeed, it is even as thou sayest,” was the reply;“ to the Lord and His Prophet belong benevolence and grace.” “Nay, by the Lord," continued the Prophet, “but ye might have answered, and answered truly, for I would have testified to its truth myself: "Thou camest to us rejected as an impostor, and we believed in thee; thou camest as a helpless fugitive, and we assisted thee; poor and an ontcast, and we gave thee an asyhum ; comfortless, and we solaced thee.' Ye Ansār, why disturb your hearts because of the things of this life? Are you not satisfied that others shonld obtain the Hocks and the camels, while ve go back to your homes with me in your midst ? By Him who holds my life in His Hands, I shall never abandon you. If all mankind went one way and the Ansār another, verily I would join the Ansār. The Lord be favorable into them and bless them, and their children, and their children's children.” They wept, the