These old people were all messengers of God. I fall down and worship them; I take the dust of their feet. But they are dead! ... And we are alive. We must go ahead! ... Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and BE
- Swami Vivekananda
(Delivered on March 25, 1900, in the San Francisco Bay Area)The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/Mohammed
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