… to put the Hindu ideas into English and then make out of dry philosophy and intricate mythology and queer startling psychology, a religion which shall be easy, simple, popular, and at the same time meet the requirements of the highest minds -- is a task only those can understand who have attempted it.
The dry, abstract Advaita must become living -- poetic -- in everyday life; out of hopelessly intricate mythology must come concrete moral forms; and out of bewildering Yogi-ism must come the most scientific and practical psychology --
and all this must be put in a form so that a child may grasp it.
That is my life's work.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Alasinga Perumal
from US (February 1896)
The dry, abstract Advaita must become living -- poetic -- in everyday life; out of hopelessly intricate mythology must come concrete moral forms; and out of bewildering Yogi-ism must come the most scientific and practical psychology --
and all this must be put in a form so that a child may grasp it.
That is my life's work.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Alasinga Perumal
from US (February 1896)
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