Vivekananda's Vision
Of The Universal Religion

"If there is ever to be a universal religion,
it must be one which will have no location in place or time;
which will be infinite, like the God it will preach,
and whose sun will shine upon the followers of Krishna and of Christ,
on saints and sinners alike;
which will not be Brahminical or Buddhist, Christian or Mohammedan,
but the sum total of all of these,
and still have infinite space for development;
which in its catholicity will embrace in its infinite arms, and find a place for,
every human being,
from the lowest groveling savage, not far removed from the brute,
to the highest man,
towering by the virtues of his head and heart almost above humanity,
making society stand in awe of him and doubt his human nature.
It will be a religion which will have no place for persecution
or intolerance in its polity,
which will recognise diversity in every man and woman,
and whose whole scope, whose whole force,
will be centered in aiding humanity to realise its own true,
divine nature."

                                                                      Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)

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