You must give your body, mind, and speech to "the welfare of the world".
You have read --"मातृदेवो भव, पितृदेवो भव -- look upon your mother as God, look upon your father as God"-- but I say "दरिद्रदेवो भव, मूर्खदेवो भव -- the poor, the illiterate, the ignorant, the afflicted -- let these be your God."
Know that service to these alone is the highest religion.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Swami Akhandananda
from US (1894)
You have read --"मातृदेवो भव, पितृदेवो भव -- look upon your mother as God, look upon your father as God"-- but I say "दरिद्रदेवो भव, मूर्खदेवो भव -- the poor, the illiterate, the ignorant, the afflicted -- let these be your God."
Know that service to these alone is the highest religion.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Swami Akhandananda
from US (1894)
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