If the World’s Parliament of Religions has shown anything to the world, it is this: It has proved to the world that holiness, purity and charity are not exclusive possessions of any church in the world, and that every system has produced men and women of the most exalted character.
Swami Vivekananda
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The World’s Parliament of Religions
Topic: Interfaith Pathways
If the World’s Parliament of Religions has shown anything to the world, it is this: It has proved to the world that holiness, purity and charity are not the exclusive possessions of any church in the world, and that every system has produced men and women of the most exalted character. In the face of this evidence, if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart, and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written, in spite of resistance: “Help and not fight,” “Assimilation and not Destruction,” “Harmony and Peace and not Dissension.”
Swami Vivekananda (Bengali: [ʃami bibekanɔnd̪o] (About this sound listen); 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. He was a major force in the revival of Hinduism in India, and contributed to the concept of nationalism in colonial India. Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission. He is perhaps best known for his speech which began, "Sisters and brothers of America ...,"in which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893.
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The World's Parliament of Religions
Swami Vivekananda, Final Address at The World's Parliament of Religions (Chicago: The Parliament Publishing Co., 1893).
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Swami Vivekananda
Theme: Interfaith Dialogue
The World’s Parliament of Religions
At the World’s Parliament of Religions, convened during the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago (September 11-28, 1893), Swami Vivekananda’s greeting enthralled the 5,000 delegates, “Sisters and brothers of America!”
In 1894, riding the wave of enthusiasm for Hinduism that he had helped create, Swami Vivekananda founded the first American Vedanta Society in New York.
The Ramakrishna Order, with headquarters in Kolkata (Calcutta), is one of the largest and most respected religious orders in India today. The Order was inspired by the great Bengali saint, Sri Ramakrishna. Shortly before his death in 1886, Ramakrishna encouraged his young disciples to formally renounce the world by giving them the ocher cloth of renunciation. He entrusted the care of these young men to his foremost disciple, Swami Vivekananda, who later, in 1897, founded the Ramakrishna Order.
—Vedanta Society websites.
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