"Do not care for doctrines, do not care for dogmas, or sects, or churches or temples, they count for little compared with the essence of existence in each man, which is spirituality and the more this is developed in a man, the more powerful is he for good. Earn that first, acquire that, and criticise no one, for all doctrines and creeds have some good in them. Show by your lives that religion does not mean words, or names ,or sects but that it means spiritual realization, only those can understand who have attained to spirituality, can communicate it to others, can be great teachers of making. They alone are the powers of light"
- Bhagwan Shri Ramakrishna Paramhansa
"The more such men are produced in a country, the more that country will be raised, and that country where such men absolutely do not exist is simply doomed, nothing can save it Therefore my Master's message to the mankind is: Be spiritual and realize a truth for yourself.... To proclaim and make clear the fundamental unity underlying all religions which bear their names, but this great teacher of the nineteenth because he had realised that in reality they are all part and parcel of the eternal religion."
- Swami Vivekanand
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