A Hero Is A Man Who Does

As A Result Of All His Education, From Everything He Hears And Sees Around Him, The Child Absorbs Such A Lot Of Lies And Foolish Nonsense, Mixed In With Essential Truths, That The First Duty Of The Adolescent Who Wants To Be A Healthy Man Is To Disgorge It All.

Religious Faith In The Case Of The Hindus Has Never Been Allowed To Run Counter To Scientific Laws, Moreover The Former Is Never Made A Condition For The Knowledge They Teach, But There Are Always Scrupulously Careful To Take Into Consideration The Possibility That By Reason Both The Agnostic And Atheist May Attain Truth In Their Own Way. Such Tolerance May Be Surprising To Religious Believers In The West, But It Is An Integral Part Of Vedantic Belief.

The Friend Who Understands You, Creates You.

His (swami Vivekananda) Words Are Great Music, Phrases In The Style Of Beethoven, Stirring Rhythms Like The March Of Handel Choruses. I Cannot Touch These Sayings Of His, Scattered As They Are Through The Pages Of Books, At Thirty Years' Distance, Without Receiving A Thrill Through My Body Like An Electric Shock. And What Shocks, What Transports, Must Have Been Produced When In Burning Words They Issued From The Lips Of The Hero!

If There Is One Place On The Face Of The Earth Where All The Dreams Of Living Men Have Found A Home From The Very Earliest Days When Man Began The Dream Of Existence, It Is India. For More Than 30 Centuries, The Tree Of Vision, With All Its Thousand Branches And Their Millions Of Twigs, Has Sprung From This Torrid Land, The Burning Womb Of The Gods. It Renews Itself Tirelessly Showing No Signs Of Decay.