What harm is there in some people worshipping their Guru [referring to Sri Ramakrishna] when that Guru was a hundred times more holy than even your historical prophets all taken together?
If there is no harm in worshipping Christ, Krishna, or Buddha, why should there be any in worshipping this man who never did or thought anything unholy, whose intellect only through intuition stands head and shoulders above all the other prophets, because they were all one-sided?
It was he that brought first to the world this idea of truth, not in but of every religion, which is gaining ground all over the world, and that without the help of science or philosophy or any other acquirement.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Haridas V Desai
from Chicago (January 1894)
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