COVID-19 Aid in Eluthur, Mannar August 2021

  Providing Dry Ration - Cost Rs.2000/- (US$ 10) per family.

 COVID-19  Relief Work in Mannar

• Distribution on 05-08-2021  to 25 families - Eluthur, Mannar.

Sponsored by  Engineers Charity Fund -   Australia

 

 

 

 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna 

Source: Swami Nikhilananda, 

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (New York:

 Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1942). 

If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path. God can be realized through all paths.

 

All religions are true.

 

The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions. 

The Vaishnavas will realize God, and so will the Saktas, the Vedantists and the Brahmos. The Mussalmans and the Christians will realize him too. All will certainly realize God if they are earnest and sincere.

I had to practice each religion for a time—Hinduism, Islam, Christianity. Furthermore, I followed the paths of the Saktas, Vaishnavas, and Vedantists.

I realized that there is only one God toward whom all are travelling; but the paths  are different. 

Lovers of God do not belong to any caste.

 A brahmin without this love is no longer a brahmin. And a pariah with the love of God is no longer a pariah. Through bhakti an untouchable becomes pure and elevated. 

Truth is one; only It is called by different names. 

All people are seeking the same Truth; the variance is due to climate, temperament, and name.

 A lake has many ghats. From one ghat the Hindus take water in jars and call it “jal.” From another ghat the Mussalmans take water in leather bags and call it “pani.” From a third the Christians take the same thing and call it “water.” Suppose someone says that the thing is not “jal” but “pani,” or that it is not “pani” but “water,” or that it is not “water” but “jal.” It would indeed be ridiculous.

 

But this very thing is at the root of the friction among sects, their misunderstandings and quarrels. 

This is why people injure and kill one another, and shed blood, in the name of religion. But this is not good. 

Everyone is going toward God

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They will all realize Him if they have sincerity and longing of heart. 

Countless Americans have been influenced by Swami Vivekananda, even if many don’t know who he is

By Philip Goldberg October 22, 2020

In his short, famous opening talk, he described Hinduism as “a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance” and accepts “all religions as true”; and presented the core Vedantic proposition that all paths ultimately lead to the same pinnacle of spiritual realization, citing the Bhagavad Gita: “Whosoever comes to Me, through whatsoever form, I reach him; all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to me.”