Thoughts on Hinduism

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Swami Vivekananda on Hinduism

 

1.You have withstood the shocks of centuries simply

because you took great care of it, yet sacrificed

everything else for it, yet sacrificed everything else

for it. Your forefathers underwent everything boldly,

even death itself, but preserved their religion.

Temple after Temple was broken down by the foreign

conqueror, but no sooner had the wave passed, than the

spire of the temple rose up again. Some of there old

temples of Southern India, and those like Somnath of

Gujarat, will teach you volumes of wisdom, will give

you a keener insight into the history of the race than

any amount of books. Mark how there temples bear the

marks of hundred attacks and a hundred regenerations

continually destroyed and continually springing up out

of the ruins, rejuvenated and strong as ever!

 

2. Mark me, then and then alone you are a Hindu when

the very name sends through you a galvanic shock of

strength. Then and then alone you are a Hindu when

every man who bears the name, from any country,

speaking our language or any other language, becomes

the nearest and dearest to you. Then and then alone

you are a Hindu when the distress of anyone bearing

that name comes to your heart and makes you feel as he

your own son were in distress. Then and then alone you

are a Hindu when you will be ready to bear everything

for them, like the great example I have Quoted at the

beginning of this lecture, of your Great Guru Govind

Singh.