Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Truth is Strengthening

We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. 
It is a man-making religion that we want. It is man-making theories that we want. It is 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. 

These mysticisms, in spite of some grains of truth in them, are generally weakening. Believe me, I have a lifelong experience of it, and the one conclusion that I draw is that it is weakening. 

           - Swami Vivekananda, 
            Address at Victoria Hall Madras, 
            Lectures From Colombo to Almora


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