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Idolatry Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry…
- Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.
- As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that the worshippers are…
- Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay,…
- One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.
- Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.
- The idol is the expression of religion.
- The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.
- The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it…
- The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.
- This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that…
- Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form…
- Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.
- We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it? Only the perfect…
- We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is…
- Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.
- Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is dreadful idolatry; but…
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