Outward forms and observances are only for the manifestation of the great inner powers of man. The object of all scriptures is to awaken those inner powers and make him understand and realize his real nature.
The means are of the nature of ordinances and prohibitions. If you lose sight of the ideal, fight over the means only, what will it avail? In every country I have visited, I find this fighting over the means going on, and people have no eye on the ideal.
Shri Ramakrishna came to show the truth of this.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Conversations and Dialogues,
recorded by Sharat Chandra Chakravarty
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