Religion is not the goal by SWAMI NIKHILANANDA

but only a path by

means of which the aspirant attains ultimate 
perfection. Different religions are necessary to 
suit different minds at varying levels of evolution. 
All religions are working for the good of mankind. 
Each religion takes up, as it were, one part of the 
great Universal Truth and spends its whole force 
in embodying and typifying it. The much sought- 
for Universal Religion has always been in 
existence. It runs through all the various religions 
in the form of God-consciousness, which is the 
foundation of them all. Truth is the thread that 
holds together the pearls of the different faiths.