"Can
you weep for Him with intense longing of heart? Men shed a jugful of
tears for the sake of their children, for their wives, or for money.
But who weeps for God? So long as the child remains engrossed with
its toys, the mother looks after her cooking and other household
duties. But when the child no longer relishes the toys, it throws
them aside and yells for its mother. Then the mother takes the
rice-pot down from the hearth, runs in haste, and takes the child in
her arms."
(Dakshineshwar 1884)
"I
fervently hope that the bell that tolled this morning in honour of
this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all
persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable
feelings between persons wending their way to the same goal."
Swami
Vivekananda Representative of Hindus Parliament
of
Religions Columbian Exposition, Chicago World Fair 11 September
1893.
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