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But the need is not 'seen' by both sides. The Traditionalists - for them he is purely irrelevant. He was more a Deux-machina at the juncture perhaps warding off. That too on pressing so much just not to snub us in the face they may concede. In their eyes, their system is intact and clear without any confusion. As to the Ramakrishnaites (if not Vivekanadaites) all scriptures are just foot-notes or bandaram of apt quotes to bejewel the Holy Trio's words and they are not worth anything more. Even many monks do not know what was real vedantha and where Vivekananda's interpretation differs. Even if you write so no takers.
That too after international-proof given by ISKCON that you need not budge an inch from your orthodox upholding of MOnotheism of Krishna , Rk V 's attempts at Universal Religion, Hinduism as the most near candidate to such UR are seen with critical if not sarcastic eyes. But proving the need of Hinduism as the great systemic-meta-religion, unprecedented in history which is essential to reach UR and more so to provide antidote to fanatical religions usurping the human space seem near impossibility.
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I was about to suggest-write the necessity of reading the lecture by Swami Vivekananda - The Ideal of Universal Religion, delivered by him at Hardman Hall on Sunday January 12, 1896. It was printed by Hardies and Wright. It is some 30 pages printed booklet in archives.
I will give the first paras from both. Why such variations, as if tutoring Vivekananda in English after his Samadhi !
1896 ed -
Wheresoever our senses reach, or our minds can imagine,
we find action and reaction of the two forces, one counteracting the other, causing the constant play of these two, the mixed phenomena that we see around us or feel in our mind. In the external world, it is expressing itself in physical matter, as attraction and repulsion, centripetal and centrifugal. In the internal world, it explains the various mixed feelings of our nature, the opposites, love and haired, good and evil. We repel some things, we attract some things. We are attracted by someone, we are repelled by someone. Many times in our lives we find without any reason whatsoever we, as it were, are attracted toward certain persons; at other times, similarly, mysteriously, we are repelled by others. This is patent to all, and the higher the field of action, the more potent, the more remarkable, are the actions of these forces. Religion is the highest plane of human thought, and herein we find that the actions of these two forces have been most marked. The intensest love that humanity has ever known has come from religion, and the most diabolical hatred that humanity has known has come from religion. The noblest words of peace that the world has ever heard have come from men on this plane, and the bitterest denunciation that the world has ever known has sprung from religious men.
online now -
Wheresoever our senses reach, or whatsoever our minds imagine, we find therein the action and reaction of two forces, the one counteracting the other and causing the constant play of the mixed phenomena that we see around us, and of those which we feel in our minds. In the external world, the action of these opposite forces is expressing itself as attraction and repulsion, or as centripetal and centrifugal forces; and in the internal, as love and hatred, good and evil. We repel some things, we attract others. We are attracted by one, we are repelled by another. Many times in our lives we find that without any reason whatsoever we are, as it were, attracted towards certain persons; at other times, similarly, we are repelled by others. This is patent to all, and the higher the field of action, the more potent, the more remarkable, are the influences of these opposite forces. Religion is the highest plane of human thought and life, and herein we find that the workings of these two forces have been most marked. The intensest love that humanity has ever known has come from religion, and the most diabolical hatred that humanity has known has also come from religion. The noblest words of peace that the world has ever heard have come from men on the religious plane, and the bitterest denunciation that the world has ever known has been uttered by religious men.
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The first reads naturally and in the online version is there the same charm?
Srirangam Mohanarangan
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