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He

(Swami Vivekananda) preached ahimsa--noninjury, physically,

mentally and emotionally--as Hinduism's cardinal law.

He even recorded how ashamed he was, on later

reflection, when he fiercely berated Christians for criticizing his

faith. "My

master's lips never cursed anyone, never even criticized

anyone," he wrote.

The sacredness of ahimsa was driven home one day as

he performed puja

to worship Goddess Kshirbhavani in the form of a

four-year-old girl in an

old temple. Upon hearing the temple had once

been destroyed by Muslim

invaders, he railed: "How could the people

have permitted such sacrilege

without offering resistance? If I had

been here then, I would never have

allowed such a thing. I would have

laid down my life to protect the Mother!"

 

Then he heard the Goddess

say:

"What if unbelievers should enter My temple

and defile My image?

What is that to you?

Do you protect Me or do I protect you?

My child!

If I so wish, I can have innumerable temples

and monastic centers.

I

can even this moment raise a seven-storied, golden temple

on this very

spot."

The swami later confided, "Let these things be as Mother wills."

 

 

Source: http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/1993/8/1993-8-11.shtml

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