Tuesday, July 7, 2020

No Sins, Only Mistakes

These are what Vedanta has not to give. No book. No man to be singled out from the rest of mankind --"You are worms, and we are the Lord God!"-- none of that. 
If you are the Lord God, I also am the Lord God. 

So Vedanta knows no sin. There are mistakes but no sin; and in the long run everything is going to be all right. 
No Satan -- none of this nonsense. Vedanta believes in only one sin, only one in the world, and it is this: the moment you think you are a sinner or anybody is a sinner, that is sin.  

           - Swami Vivekananda, 
              ‘Is Vedanta the Future Religion’, 
                Talk at San Francisco

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