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
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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