Those that tell you that Indian thought never went outside of India, those that tell you that I am the first Sannyasin who went to foreign lands to preach, do not know the history of their own race.
Again and again this phenomenon has happened.
Whenever the world has required it, this perennial flood of spirituality has overflowed and deluged the world.
Gifts of political knowledge can be made with the blast of trumpets and the march of cohorts. Gifts of secular knowledge and social knowledge can be made with fire and sword.
But spiritual knowledge can only be given in silence like the dew that falls unseen and unheard, yet bringing into bloom masses of roses.
This has been the gift of India to the world again and again. Whenever there has been a great conquering race, bringing the nations of the world together, making roads and transit possible, immediately India arose and gave her quota of spiritual power to the sum total of the progress to the world.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Victoria Hall Madras,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
Again and again this phenomenon has happened.
Whenever the world has required it, this perennial flood of spirituality has overflowed and deluged the world.
Gifts of political knowledge can be made with the blast of trumpets and the march of cohorts. Gifts of secular knowledge and social knowledge can be made with fire and sword.
But spiritual knowledge can only be given in silence like the dew that falls unseen and unheard, yet bringing into bloom masses of roses.
This has been the gift of India to the world again and again. Whenever there has been a great conquering race, bringing the nations of the world together, making roads and transit possible, immediately India arose and gave her quota of spiritual power to the sum total of the progress to the world.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Victoria Hall Madras,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
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