We should get beyond the prattle of men who think that religion is merely a mass of frothy words, that
it is only a system of doctrines;
to whom religion is only a little intellectual assent or dissent; to whom religion is believing in certain words which their own priests tell them;
to whom religion is something which their forefathers believed;
to whom religion is a certain form of ideas and superstitions to which they cling because they are their national superstitions.
We should get beyond all these and look at humanity as one vast organism, slowly coming towards light -- a wonderful plant, slowly unfolding itself to that wonderful truth which is called God -- and the first gyrations, the first motions, towards this are always through matter and through ritual.
- Swami Vivekananda, Talk in New York
it is only a system of doctrines;
to whom religion is only a little intellectual assent or dissent; to whom religion is believing in certain words which their own priests tell them;
to whom religion is something which their forefathers believed;
to whom religion is a certain form of ideas and superstitions to which they cling because they are their national superstitions.
We should get beyond all these and look at humanity as one vast organism, slowly coming towards light -- a wonderful plant, slowly unfolding itself to that wonderful truth which is called God -- and the first gyrations, the first motions, towards this are always through matter and through ritual.
- Swami Vivekananda, Talk in New York
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