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The mission of the Vedanta

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On the occasion of his visit to Kumbakonam, the Swamiji was presented with the following address by the local Hindu community: REVERED SWAMIN, On behalf of the Hindu inhabitants of this ancient and religiously important town of Kumbakonam, we request permission to offer you a most hearty welcome on your return from the Western World to our own holy land of great temples and famous saints and sages. We are highly thankful to God for the remarkable success of your religious mission in America and in Europe, and for His having enabled you to impress upon the choicest representatives of the world's great religions assembled at Chicago that both the Hindu philosophy and religion are so broad and so rationally catholic as to have in them the power to exalt and to harmonise all ideas of God and of human spirituality. The conviction that the cause of Truth is always safe in the hands of Him who is the life and soul of the universe has been for thousands of years part of our living faith; and i

The mission of the Vedanta ← Home / Complete-Works / Volume 3 / Lectures from Colombo to Almora / → THE MISSION OF THE VEDANTA On the occasion of his visit to Kumbakonam, the Swamiji was presented with the following address by the local Hindu community: REVERED SWAMIN, On behalf of the Hindu inhabitants of this ancient and religiously important town of Kumbakonam, we request permission to offer you a most hearty welcome on your return from the Western World to our own holy land of great temples and famous saints and sages. We are highly thankful to God for the remarkable success of

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