Perceived Messenger of Swami Vivekananda
'Brothers and Sisters of America' Which Indian can forget these famous words of Swami Vivekananda at the World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago on the 11th of September, 1893. He went on to add that he is proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the Earth. He said further, 'I will quote to you, brethren, a few lines from a hymn which I remember to have repeated by millions of human beings: 'As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.' Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism have long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had i...