What is the God of Vedanta?
He is principle, not person. You and I are all Personal Gods.
The absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.
You and I, the cat, rat, devil, and ghost, all these are Its persons -- all are Personal Gods.
You want to worship Personal Gods. It is the worship of your own self. If you take my advice, you will never enter any church.
Come out and go and wash off. Wash yourself again and again until you are cleansed of all the superstitions that have clung to you through the ages. Or, perhaps, you do not like to do so, since you do not wash yourself so often in this country -- frequent washing is an Indian custom, not a custom of your society.
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘Is Vedanta the Future Religion’,
Talk at San Francisco
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