This [spirituality] is the national characteristic, and this cannot be touched.
Barbarians with sword and fire, barbarians bringing barbarous religions, not one of them could touch the core, not one could touch the "jewel", not one had the power to kill the "bird" which the soul of the race inhabited.
This, therefore, is the vitality of the race, and so long as that remains, there is no power under the sun that can kill the race.
All the tortures and miseries of the world will pass over without hurting us, and we shall come out of the flames like Prahlada, so long as we hold on to this grandest of all our inheritances, spirituality.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Lahore,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
Barbarians with sword and fire, barbarians bringing barbarous religions, not one of them could touch the core, not one could touch the "jewel", not one had the power to kill the "bird" which the soul of the race inhabited.
This, therefore, is the vitality of the race, and so long as that remains, there is no power under the sun that can kill the race.
All the tortures and miseries of the world will pass over without hurting us, and we shall come out of the flames like Prahlada, so long as we hold on to this grandest of all our inheritances, spirituality.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Lahore,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
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