A country where millions of people live on flowers of the Mohua plant, and a million or two of Sadhus and a hundred million or so of Brahmins suck the blood out of these poor people, without even the least effort for their amelioration -- is that a country or hell?
Is that a religion, or the devil's dance?
My brother, here is one thing for you to understand fully -- I have travelled all over India, and seen this country too -- can there be an effect without cause?
Can there be punishment without sin?
सर्वशास्त्रपुराणेषु व्यासस्य वचनं ध्रुव्रम् |
परोपकार: पुण्याय पापाय परपीडनम् ||
-"Amidst all the scriptures and Puranas, know this statement of Vyasa to be true, that doing good to others conduces to merit, and doing harm to them leads to sin."
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Swami Ramakrishnananda
from Chicago (March 1894)
Is that a religion, or the devil's dance?
My brother, here is one thing for you to understand fully -- I have travelled all over India, and seen this country too -- can there be an effect without cause?
Can there be punishment without sin?
सर्वशास्त्रपुराणेषु व्यासस्य वचनं ध्रुव्रम् |
परोपकार: पुण्याय पापाय परपीडनम् ||
-"Amidst all the scriptures and Puranas, know this statement of Vyasa to be true, that doing good to others conduces to merit, and doing harm to them leads to sin."
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Swami Ramakrishnananda
from Chicago (March 1894)
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