Vedanta says “O Christians, 0 Mohammedans, 0 Vaishnavas, 0 ye different sects of the whole world, if you think you are being saved through the name of Christ or Buddha or Krishna or any other saint, remember the real virtue does not lie in the Christ, or the Buddha, or the Krishna, or anybody; the real virtue lies in your own Self.” Vedanta Says, “Have more regard for Truth than for the feelings of this or that individual; because if you value the truth, you are really valuing the friend. As to meat, Vedanta says, “Have no clinging to your bodies; mind not whether your body lives or dies; care not whether people worship your body or pelt it with stones. Rise above it.” Vedanta says, “Here is the Law: You can consider other idols to be real to the same degree as you look upon your own idol, the body, to be real. That is the Law.” You begin to love a picture for its own sake and ignore the person whose picture it is, are you not worshipping an idol? What is idolatry? To give the forms of foes and friends a sense of personality, individuality and reality to such an extent, as to miss the impersonated (masked) individual (indivisible) Real Self or Law. According to the Hindus, everybody is God, the most precious jewel, the whole treasure, the supreme bliss and source of all happiness in Himself. Everybody is God and All in Himself. The sublime teaching of the Upanishads and the glorious Vedanta have been replaced by a sort of kitchen-religion, that is, eccentric regard for diet and the ways of eating. The true Vedanta is not confined to the Vedas only. It is in your hearts ..take not Rama as a slave of this or that dogma. Rama is your own self, independence itself. Why shut out Brahma-Vidya from any one. Down with the closed
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