Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India April 1925

This man appears to have been commissioned by God to carry the message of aggressive Hinduism to the four corners of the earth to show to the world the grandeur of the broad-based synthesis of religion impersonated in the child-man Sri Ramakrishna and above all to awaken race-consciousness among the Hindus and show them that they are not lambs and. [...] In the course of a conversation in the Belur Math the late lamented Swami Prajnananda pointed out to the writer the points of close resemblance between the episodes in the life of Swami Vivekananda and Mahavira. [...] But there can be no doubt that the human race is still struggling along groping as it were in the dark to find a way out towards Light and the present chaotic condition of the world is a proof of the fact that the race has not yet taken to a definite line of progress which would in the end contribute to the maximum of happiness to one and all. [...] And it seems as if Providence means to work out the salvation of humanity also in the East by realising first the ideal of the brotherhood of nations and then the ideal of the brotherhood of man. [...] 0 lotus-eyed Lord injunctions and prohibitions constitute Thy commandment the Vedas which adjudge the merits) and defects of work of the various castes and orders of life of the issues of Anuloma2 and Pratiloma marriages of substance place age and time and of heaven and hell.