What is sacred need not be secret. His teachings were profound, but were open, ehi passa, ehi passa, ‘come and see, come and see’, as he picturesquely expressed it. Addressing his disciple Ananda he said: The Tathagata has no secrecy; secrecy belongs to three things, O Ananda: to priest knowledge, to false knowledge, and to prostitutes.

It is imperative that our people turn away from the cheap and secret miracles of yoga and religion, indulgence in which had kept our people weak and superstitious and in political slavery for centuries, and turn to master the marvelous and beneficial and open ‘miracles’ of physical science for our individual and collective welfare.