Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

The fascintion of wealth and material resources that the civilization of the West brought in its wake has bewildered individuals and groups of every land and has made them cling desperately to the comforts of the body and the pleasures of the senses. [...] Thus it cannot but be clear to discerning minds that the Brahman of the Vedantins the Father in Heaven of the Christians the Allah of the Muslims the Jehova of the Jews the Buddha and the Dharma of the Buddhists and the Ahura Mazda of the Zoroastrians are manifetations under different names of one and the same Eternal Principle. [...] From the beginning of time the spiritual yearnings of the soul of man have sought vivid and eloquent fulfilment in the inspired outpourings and dynamic teachings of the great seers and saints—the living representtions of the divinity and perfection that are inherent in each and every man. [...] Let us remind ourselves that the emblem of the Ramakrishna Order signifies the hamony of the four Yogas through which alone the vision of the Paramatman is attained. [...] Erotic sculptures in temples look jarring to the latter for they seem bizarre and oni of place; yet these only refteict the artist's attempt to comb'ne senstion and understanding the beautiful and the edifying the sublime and the secular the physical and the moral the transient and the immutable the finite and the infinite.