For thousands of years millions and millions all over the world have been taught to worship the Lord of the world, the Incarnations, the saviours, the prophets.
They have been taught to consider themselves helpless, miserable creatures and to depend upon the mercy of some person or persons for salvation.
There are no doubt many marvellous things in such beliefs. But even at their best, they are but kindergartens of religion, and they have helped but little. Men are still hypnotised into abject degradation.
However, there are some strong souls who get over that illusion. The hour comes when great men shall arise and cast off these kindergartens of religion and shall make vivid and powerful the true religion, the worship of the spirit by the spirit.
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘Is Vedanta the Future Religion’,
Talk at San Francisco
They have been taught to consider themselves helpless, miserable creatures and to depend upon the mercy of some person or persons for salvation.
There are no doubt many marvellous things in such beliefs. But even at their best, they are but kindergartens of religion, and they have helped but little. Men are still hypnotised into abject degradation.
However, there are some strong souls who get over that illusion. The hour comes when great men shall arise and cast off these kindergartens of religion and shall make vivid and powerful the true religion, the worship of the spirit by the spirit.
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘Is Vedanta the Future Religion’,
Talk at San Francisco
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