THE NECESSITY OF RELIGION

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THE NECESSITY OF RELIGION - Swami Vivekananda

 

What is needed is a fellow-feeling between the different types of

religion, seeing that they all stand or fall together, a fellow-

feeling which springs from mutual esteem and mutual respect, and not

the condescending, patronising, niggardly expression of goodwill,

unfortunately in vogue at the present time with many. And above all,

this is needed between types of religious expression coming from the

study of mental phenomena -- unfortunately, even now laying

exclusive claim to the name of religion -- and those expressions of

religion whose heads, as it were, are penetrating more into the

secrets of heaven though their feet are clinging to the earth, I

mean, the so-called materialistic sciences.

 

To bring about this harmony, both will have to make concessions,

sometimes very large, nay more, sometimes painful, but each will

find itself the better for the sacrifice and more advanced in truth.

And in the end, the knowledge which is confined within the domain of

time and space will meet and become one with that which is beyond

them both, where the mind and senses cannot reach -- the Absolute,

the Infinite, the One without a second.

 

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Volume 2 [ Page : 68 ]

(Delivered in London) The End.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

You must avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never

becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be

followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often

run from one extreme to the other.

- Swami Vivekananda