Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles.
If the principles are there, the persons will come by the thousands and millions. If the principle is safe, persons like Buddha will be born by the hundreds and thousands. But if the principle is lost and forgotten and the whole of national life tries to cling round a so-called historical person, woe unto that religion, danger unto that religion!
Ours is the only religion that does not depends on a person or persons; it is based upon principles. At the same time there is room for millions of persons.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Madras,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
If the principles are there, the persons will come by the thousands and millions. If the principle is safe, persons like Buddha will be born by the hundreds and thousands. But if the principle is lost and forgotten and the whole of national life tries to cling round a so-called historical person, woe unto that religion, danger unto that religion!
Ours is the only religion that does not depends on a person or persons; it is based upon principles. At the same time there is room for millions of persons.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Madras,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
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