8 April :
8 Apr 1900 : Aft: Final Sunday lecture at Union Square Hall, So Post
St, SF, CA- IS VEDANTA THE FUTURE RELIGION? (CW 8:122-41) - ...You all
know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all,
there is the book. The power of the book is simply marvellous! Whatever
it be, the book is the centre round which human allegiance gathers. Not
one religion is living today but has a book. With all its rationalism
and tall talk, humanity still clings to the books. In your country every
attempt to start a religion without a book has failed. In India sects
rise with great success, but within a few years they die down, because
there is no book behind them. So in every other country.
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