The truth about it is that in point of character, Paramahamsa Deva beats all previous records; and as regards teaching, he was more liberal, more original, and more progressive than all his predecessors. In other words, the older Teachers were rather one-sided, while the teaching of this new Incarnation or Teacher is that the best point of Yoga, devotion, knowledge, and work must be combined now so as to form a new society...
... The older ones were no doubt good, but this is the new religion of this age -- the synthesis of Yoga, knowledge, devotion, and work -- the propagation of knowledge and devotion to all, down to the very lowest, without distinction of age or sex. The previous Incarnations were all right, but they have been synthesised in the person of Ramakrishna.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to his brother disciples
from England (April 1896)
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