Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet."
Idol Worship quotes
Idol Worship
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Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form discarding all external help, do so, but why do you condemn others who cannot do the same?""
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"The idol is the expression of religion."
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"This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do."
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"Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain."
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"We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika."
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