Truly has it been said of the Upanishads by Ramanuja that
they form the head, the shoulders, the crest of the Vedas, and surely enough
the Upanishads have become the Bible of modern India
The Hindus have the greatest
respect for the Karma Kanda of the Vedas, but, for all practical purposes, we
know that for ages by Shruti has been meant the Upanishads, and the Upanishads
alone.
We know that all our great philosophers, whether Vyasa, Patanjali, or
Gautama, and even the father of all philosophy, the great Kapila himself,
whenever they wanted an authority for what they wrote, every one of them found
it in the Upanishads, and nowhere else, for therein are the truths that remain
for ever.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Lahore
Lectures From
Colombo
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