Vivekananda Mailing List-7/20/03

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That singleness of attachment (Nishthâ) to a loved object, without

which no genuine love can grow, is very often also the cause of the

denunciation of everything else. All the weak and undeveloped minds in

every religion or country have only one way of loving their own ideal,

i.e. by hating every other ideal. Herein is the explanation of why the

same man who is so lovingly attached to his own ideal of God, so

devoted to his own ideal of religion, becomes a howling fanatic as soon

as he sees or hears anything of any other ideal.