Let no political significance ever be attached falsely to my writings or sayings. What nonsense!.... I will have nothing to do with political nonsense. I do not believe in politics. God and Truth are the only politics in the world. Everything else is trash.
It is a man-making religion that we want. It is a man-making education all round that we want. And here is the test of truth: ANYTHING THAT MAKES YOU WEAK PHYSICALLY, INTELLECTUALLY AND SPIRITUALLY, REJECT AS POISON; there is no life in it, it cannot be true. Truth is strengthening. Truth is purity, truth is all knowledge. Truth must be strengthening, must be enlightening, must be invigorating. Give up these weakening mysticisms and be strong. The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.
He who wants perfection in the world is a madman – for it cannot be. How can you find the infinite in the finite?
The real spiritual man – everywhere – is broad-minded. His love forces him to be so. They to whom religion is a trade are forced to become narrow-minded and mischievous by their very introduction into religion of the competitive, fighting selfish methods of the world.
No religion on earth preaches the dignity of humanity in such a lofty strain as Hinduism, and no religion on earth treads upon the necks of the poor and the low in such a fashion as Hinduism. Religion is not at fault, but it is the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Let each of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny – pray day and night for them. I care more to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich. I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay no saint. But I am poor, I love the poor… (Swami Vivekananda)
It is a man-making religion that we want. It is a man-making education all round that we want. And here is the test of truth: ANYTHING THAT MAKES YOU WEAK PHYSICALLY, INTELLECTUALLY AND SPIRITUALLY, REJECT AS POISON; there is no life in it, it cannot be true. Truth is strengthening. Truth is purity, truth is all knowledge. Truth must be strengthening, must be enlightening, must be invigorating. Give up these weakening mysticisms and be strong. The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.
He who wants perfection in the world is a madman – for it cannot be. How can you find the infinite in the finite?
The real spiritual man – everywhere – is broad-minded. His love forces him to be so. They to whom religion is a trade are forced to become narrow-minded and mischievous by their very introduction into religion of the competitive, fighting selfish methods of the world.
No religion on earth preaches the dignity of humanity in such a lofty strain as Hinduism, and no religion on earth treads upon the necks of the poor and the low in such a fashion as Hinduism. Religion is not at fault, but it is the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Let each of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny – pray day and night for them. I care more to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich. I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay no saint. But I am poor, I love the poor… (Swami Vivekananda)
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