Voice of Truth October 1926

The Swami Vivekanada seemed to hold the opinion that Indian civilisation was the oldest on the globe and that all other countries were indebted to the Vedas of India for the idea of the immortality of the Soul of man and Its oneness with the ultimate Reality underlying the universe We can have our own opinions regarding the' same and wait to accept it until it has been proved clearly by the evide [...] What they wanted strictly from every individual of the community was to subscribe to the rules and customs of sticiety and to the belief in the sanctity and the truth of the records of super-conscious experiences of the great seeis that ate to be found in the Vedas and especially in the Vedanta part of it. [...] Thus the ship of the national life in India had been sailing through rough and calm waters in its voyage to find the safe haven in the eternal Rock of Ages " the absolute Reality in and beyond the universe protected by the almerciful hand of Providence until the time came for its facing the roughest weather of all"THE IDEAS IDEALS AND ACTIVITIES OF 27 THE RAMAKRISHNA MISSION after the great [...]. From the worship of the dead past we invite you to the worship of the living present " Nowhere in the past history of the world have we come across the fact of any of the great teachers of relgion trying to find out what truth there is in the various paths through which men are travelling towards the religious goals since the dawn of religion and religious ideas in this planet of ours. [...] Parliament of Religions at Chicago ; how by the inscrutable ways of the Divine Mother the object of"THE IDEAS IDEALS AND ACTIVITIES OF 33 THE RAMAICRISHNA MISSION that august assembly was turned as it were and made to suit and serve the purpose of the advent of the Swami before the pablic and the glory of Hinduism ; and how winning laurel after laurel for Mother India and Hinuism in America a