[Sri Ramakrishna] Digest Number 963

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For Chandrayee Bannerjee, (Message 7 in Digest 963)

In recent times there are many, many passages in the Works of Swami

Vivekananda to this effect.

Going back a bit, consider " ayam nijah puro vetti, ganana laghu cetasaam,

udaara caritaanaam tu,

vasudhaiva kutumbhakam. " 'This is mine, this is the other's' is the

reckoning of the small-minded, the narrow; noble-minded folk say, 'The

whole earth is one single family. "

Or, in Siva-Mahimnah Stotram: " As the many streams, having their sources in

different places, mingle their waters in the sea, so, O Lord, the different

paths men take, according to their differing temperaments, prescribed by

different scriptures, various though they be, straight or crooked, all lead

at last to Thee! "

Regards, Yogeshananda