Sunday, July 15, 2012

LET US TAKE OUR STAND ON THE ONE CENTRAL TRUTH IN OUR RELIGION - THE COMMON HERITAGE OF THE HINDUS, THE BUDDHISTS, AND JAINS ALIKE - THE SPIRIT OF MAN,


Let us take our stand on the one central truth in our religion — the common heritage of the Hindus, the Buddhists, and Jains alike — the spirit of man, the Atman of man, the immortal, birthless, all-pervading, eternal soul of man whose glories the Vedas cannot themselves express, before whose majesty the universe with its galaxy upon galaxy of suns and stars and nebulae is as a drop. Every man or woman, nay, from the highest Devas to the worm that crawls under our feet, is such a spirit evoluted or involuted. The difference is not in kind, but in degree.

- Swami Vivekananda
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 4/Writings: Prose/Reply to the Madras address

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