Go now this minute to the temple of Parthasarathi, and before Him who was friend to the poor and lowly cowherds of Gokula, who never shrank to embrace the Pariah Guhaka,
who accepted the invitation of a prostitute in preference to that of nobles and saved her in His incarnation as Buddha -- yea, down on your faces before Him, and make a great sacrifice, the sacrifice of a whole life for them, for whom He comes from time to time, whom He loves above all, the poor, the lowly, the oppressed.
Vow, then, to devote your whole lives to the cause of the redemption of these three hundred millions, going down and down every day.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Alasinga Perumal
from Massachusetts (August 1893)
who accepted the invitation of a prostitute in preference to that of nobles and saved her in His incarnation as Buddha -- yea, down on your faces before Him, and make a great sacrifice, the sacrifice of a whole life for them, for whom He comes from time to time, whom He loves above all, the poor, the lowly, the oppressed.
Vow, then, to devote your whole lives to the cause of the redemption of these three hundred millions, going down and down every day.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Alasinga Perumal
from Massachusetts (August 1893)
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