"Today the name of Shri
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa is known all over India to its millions of people.
Nay, the power of that man has spread beyond India; and if there has ever
been a word of truth, a word of spirituality that I have spoken anywhere
in the world, I owe it to my Master; only the mistakes are mine.
This is the message of
Shri Ramakrishna to the modern world: 'Do not care for doctrines, do not
care for dogmas, or sects, or churches, or temples; they count for little
compared with the essence of existence in each man, which is spirituality;
and the more this is developed in a man, the more powerful is he for good.
Earn that first, acquire that, and criticise no one, for all doctrines
and creeds have some good in them. Show by your lives that religion does
not mean words, or names, or sects, but that it means spiritual realization.
Only those can understand who have felt. Only those who have attained to
spirituality can communicate it to others, can be great teachers of mankind.
They alone are the powers of light.'
The more such men are produced
in a country, the more that country will be raised; and that country where
such men absolutely do not exist is simply doomed, nothing can save it.
Therefore my Master's message to mankind is: 'Be spiritual and realize
truth for yourself.' He would have you give up for the sake of your fellow-beings.
He would have you cease talking about love for your brother, and set to
work to prove your words. The time has come for renunciation, for realization;
and then you will see the harmony in all the religions of the world. You
will know that there is no need of any quarrel. And then only will you
be ready to help humanity. To proclaim and make clear the fundamental unity
underlying all religions was the mission of my Master. Other teachers have
taught special religions which bear their names, but this great teacher
of the nineteenth century made no claim for himself. He left every religion
undisturbed because he had realized that in reality they are all part and
parcel of the one eternal religion."
-- From Swami Vivekananda's lecture
delivered in 1896 on Sri Ramakrishna's life. To read the complete version
of the lecture click here.
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Date of Release: October 2000
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Nine volumes of the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (pp. 4600)
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Two volumes of the Life of Swami Vivekananda by His Eastern & Western
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Six volumes of the research work by Marie Louise Burke, viz, Swami Vivekananda
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Story of Swami Vivekananda for Children.
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World thinkers on Swami Vivekananda.
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About 300 photographs of Swami Vivekananda and of persons and places connected
with him.
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A Benedictory address by Srimat Swami Ranganathanandaji Maharaj, 13th President
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to humanity.
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Quiz on Vivekananda of various types and a section to enrich one's knowledge.
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