Why should the Hindu nation with all its wonderful intelligence and other things have gone to pieces?
I would answer you, jealousy.
Never were there people more wretchedly jealous of one another, more envious of one another's fame and name than this wretched Hindu race. And if you ever come out in the West, the absence of this is the first feeling which you will see in the Western nations.
Three men cannot act in concert together in India for five minutes. Each one struggles for power, and in the long run the whole organisation comes to grief.
Lord! Lord! When will we learn not to be jealous!
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Haridas V Desai
from Chicago (January 1894)
I would answer you, jealousy.
Never were there people more wretchedly jealous of one another, more envious of one another's fame and name than this wretched Hindu race. And if you ever come out in the West, the absence of this is the first feeling which you will see in the Western nations.
Three men cannot act in concert together in India for five minutes. Each one struggles for power, and in the long run the whole organisation comes to grief.
Lord! Lord! When will we learn not to be jealous!
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Haridas V Desai
from Chicago (January 1894)
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