Ø All science is the search for unity. Vedanta discovered this unity in Atman; it followed its own conclusions with whatever positive knowledge was available at the time…. In fact, Vedanta hopes for and welcomes further advances in modern science by which its own spiritual vision of the One in the many may be corroborated by positive scientific knowledge, so that the spirituality of science and the spirituality of religion may flow as a united stream to fertilize all aspects of human life…..
Ø Vedanta is … both religion and philosophy. As religion, it discovers the truths of the inner world, and fosters the same discovery by others; and as philosophy, it synthesizes this science of the inner world with the other sciences of the outer world, to present a unified vision of total reality, and to impart to human life and character depth of faith and vision along with breadth of outlook and sympathy.
Ø Physically and socially, man is not free; he is conditioned by external and internal factors. Freedom is in our spiritual nature. That is our true nature, immortal and divine, and we must realize it in life. This alone is true progress, development; this alone is true religion. This great idea, Sri Ramakrishna lived, and, in so living, imparted such a power to it that, when other people received this idea, they received the power as well. They became convinced of the authenticity of this idea because Sri Ramakrishna had actually lived it.
Ø The Upanishads are an impressive record of the ‘reading of the book within’…. They are the only sacred books which addressed themselves exclusively to the discovery of these essential spiritual truths and leading man, irrespective of creed and race, to their realization in his own life… The theme of the Upanishads is FREEDOM OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT and their message is FEARLESSNESS and LOVE and SERVICE. (Swami Ranganathananda)
Ø Vedanta is … both religion and philosophy. As religion, it discovers the truths of the inner world, and fosters the same discovery by others; and as philosophy, it synthesizes this science of the inner world with the other sciences of the outer world, to present a unified vision of total reality, and to impart to human life and character depth of faith and vision along with breadth of outlook and sympathy.
Ø Physically and socially, man is not free; he is conditioned by external and internal factors. Freedom is in our spiritual nature. That is our true nature, immortal and divine, and we must realize it in life. This alone is true progress, development; this alone is true religion. This great idea, Sri Ramakrishna lived, and, in so living, imparted such a power to it that, when other people received this idea, they received the power as well. They became convinced of the authenticity of this idea because Sri Ramakrishna had actually lived it.
Ø The Upanishads are an impressive record of the ‘reading of the book within’…. They are the only sacred books which addressed themselves exclusively to the discovery of these essential spiritual truths and leading man, irrespective of creed and race, to their realization in his own life… The theme of the Upanishads is FREEDOM OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT and their message is FEARLESSNESS and LOVE and SERVICE. (Swami Ranganathananda)
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