... that this nation has lived on, in spite of hundreds of years of persecution, in spite of nearly a thousand years of foreign rule and foreign oppression. This nation still lives; the raison d'être is, it still holds to God, to the treasure house of religion and spirituality." And lest we confuse the ideas of God, religion, and spirituality with our narrow cynical vision, the following words of Swami Vivekananda should make us feel at ease and give confidence. While defining religion and its true form, Swami Vivekananda said: "Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man." "Religion is the idea which is raising the brute unto man, and man unto God." "Try to be pure and unselfish -that is the whole of religion." "Each soul is potentially divine. Religion is to manifest this Divinity within, by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or ...

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