The greatest misfortune to befall the world would be if all mankind were to recognize and accept but one religion, one universal form of worship, one standard of morality.
This would be the death-blow to all religious and spiritual progress.
Instead of trying to hasten this disastrous event by inducing persons, through good or evil methods, to conform to our own highest ideal of truth, we ought rather to endeavour to remove all obstacles which prevent men from developing in accordance with their own highest ideals, and thus make their attempt vain to establish one universal religion.
- Swami Vivekananda,
'The Goal and Methods of Realisation',
Notes from Lectures and Discourses
This would be the death-blow to all religious and spiritual progress.
Instead of trying to hasten this disastrous event by inducing persons, through good or evil methods, to conform to our own highest ideal of truth, we ought rather to endeavour to remove all obstacles which prevent men from developing in accordance with their own highest ideals, and thus make their attempt vain to establish one universal religion.
- Swami Vivekananda,
'The Goal and Methods of Realisation',
Notes from Lectures and Discourses
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