[ramakrishna] Digest Number 660

[Guest guest]

Dear Swami Yogeshananda (re your response to Digest 659): " In the editin

of the Works which I have (tenth) it is found on p. 379 in Vol. III:

" 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 hears the name, from any country, speaking our

language or any other language, becomes at once the nearest and dearest

to you. "

Is this not the description of a man (person) of God, whether Hindu,

Christian, Mohammedan or whatever other perspective -- and not only the

Hindu? ... Is this only (but a very important only) the fact of a

statement being taken out of context -- and he really did mean " a person

of God " and not a person of the Hindu religion alone? If so, we must be

ever more vigilant to make clear the entire intent of a quote.

Yours, Edith