As for religious sects -- the Brahmo Samaj, the Arya Samaj, and other sects have been useless mixtures; they were only voices of apology to our English masters to allow us to live!
We have started a new India -- a growth -- waiting to see what comes. We believe in new ideas only when the nation wants them, and what will be true for us. The test of truth for this Brahmo Samaj is "what our masters approve"; with us, what the Indian reasoning and experience approves.
The struggle has begun -- not between the Brahmo Samaj and us, for they are gone already, but a harder, deeper, and more terrible one.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Mary Hale
from Ridgely Manor (October 1899)
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