What Buddha did was to break wide open the gates of that very religion which was confined in the Upanishads to a particular caste.
What special greatness does his theory of Nirvana confer on him? His greatness lies in his unrivaled sympathy.
The high orders of Samadhi etc., that lend gravity to his religion are, almost all there in the Vedas; what are absent there are his intellect and heart, which have never since been paralleled throughout the history of the world.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Swami Akhandananda
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