"Let these things be as Mother wills."

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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."

 

Swami Vivekananda later confided, "Let these things be

as Mother wills."

 

 

 

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