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Tributes to Swami Vivekananda by his disciples |
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Sister Nivedita
- “It may be said that when he began to speak it was of ‘the religious ideas of the Hindus’, but when he ended, Hinduism had been created.”
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"The truths he preaches would have been as true, had he never been born. Nay more, they would have been equally authentic. The difference would have lain in their difficulty of access, in their want of modern clearness and incisiveness of statement, and in their loss of mutual coherence and unity. Had he not lived, texts that today will carry the bread of life to thousands might have remained the obscure disputes of scholars. He taught with authority, and not as one of the Pundits. For he himself had plunged to the depths of the realisation which he preached, and he came back like Ramanuja only to tell its secrets to the pariah, the outcast, and the foreigner."
- Sister Nivedita ( Oct 28, 1867 - Oct 13, 1911)
Sarah Ellen Waldo
To know Vivekananda was to love him, and to know him well was to revere him.
–S.E. Waldo
Brooklyn NY, she helped edit some of the Swami's major books and published lectures, including significantly, Raja Yoga. And it was her notes that form the basis of his Inspired Talks.
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- www.vivekananda.net edited by Frank Parlato Jr.
