Dec 2, 2009

Vivekananda Vedanta Lecture - Spirituality, The Gift of India

Each nation must give in order to live. When you give life, you will have life; when you receive, you must pay for it by giving to all others; and that we have been living for so many thousands of years is a fact that stares us in the face, and the solution that remains is that we have been always giving to the outside world, whatever the ignorant may think.



"Our religion is truer than any other religion, because it never conquered, because it never shed blood, because its mouth always shed words of blessing, of peace, words of love and sympathy, on all."


The gift of India is the gift of religion and philosophy, and wisdom and spirituality. And religion does not want cohorts to march before its path and clear its way. Wisdom and philosophy do not want to be carried on floods of blood. Wisdom and philosophy do not march upon bleeding human bodies, do not march with violence but come on the wings of peace and love, and that has always been so. Therefore we had to give.

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