That on the one hand, there are these eternal principles which stand upon their own foundations without depending on any reasoning even,
much less on the authority of sages however great,
of Incarnations however brilliant they may have been.
We may remark that as this is the unique position in India, our claim is that the Vedanta only can be the universal religion, that it is already the existing universal religion in the world, because it teaches principles and not persons.
No religion built upon a person can be taken up as a type by all the races of mankind.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Madras,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
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