Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.
Swami VivekanandaThe powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.
Swami VivekanandaUntil we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.
Swami VivekanandaIt is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the Vedanta declares that one and the same conscious Self is present in all beings. You always criticize the women, but say what have you done for their uplift? Writing down Smritis etc., and binding them by hard rules, the men have turned the women into manufacturing machines! If you do not raise the women, who are living embodiment of the Divine Mother, donโt think that you have any other way to rise.
Swami Vivekananda