Shankara, with his great intellect, I am afraid, had not as great a heart.
Ramanuja's heart was greater.
He felt for the downtrodden, he sympathised with them.
He took up the ceremonies, the accretions that had gathered, made them pure so far as they could be, and instituted new ceremonies, new methods of worship, for the people who absolutely required them.
At the same time he opened the door to the highest spiritual worship from the Brahmin to the Pariah.
That was Ramanuja's work.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Madras,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
Ramanuja's heart was greater.
He felt for the downtrodden, he sympathised with them.
He took up the ceremonies, the accretions that had gathered, made them pure so far as they could be, and instituted new ceremonies, new methods of worship, for the people who absolutely required them.
At the same time he opened the door to the highest spiritual worship from the Brahmin to the Pariah.
That was Ramanuja's work.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Madras,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
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