Teachings of Swami Vivekananda

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Teachings of Swami Vivekananda

 

 

 

God is eternal, without any form, omnipresent. To think of Him as possessing any form is blasphemy. But the secret of image worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing. (VII. 411)

 

Of the principal religions of the world we see Vedantism, Buddhism and certain forms of Christianity freely using images; only two religions, Mohammedanism and Protestantism, refuse such help. Yet the Mohammedans use the graves of their saints and martyrs almost in the place of images; and the Protestants, in rejecting all concrete helps to religion, are drifting away every year farther from spirituality. (III. 61)

 

 

 

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda.