Monday, October 3, 2011

THAT IT IS A PLAGUE WITH OUR COUNTRY, AND LUNATIC ASYLUMS ARE RIFE ALL OVER - LET SOME OF YOU SPREAD LIKE FIRE



The Living God is dying for want of food, for want of education! The banias of Bombay are erecting hospitals for bugs — while they would do nothing for men even if they die! You have not the brain to understand this simple thing — that it is a plague with our country, and lunatic asylums are rife all over.

... Let some of you spread like fire, and preach this worship of the universal aspect of the Godhead — a thing that was never undertaken before in our country. No quarrelling with people, we must be friends with all....

- Swami Vivekananda
1894.The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XLV Brothers

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