Newspaper and periodical reports published during Swami Vivekananda's lifetime
Wednesday, August 15, 1894
The nonsense of Nations
A short résumé is given below of the last of the talks of Vivekananda under the pines at Eliot, in the temple of the gods, to paraphrase Bryant's (William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878).) line —
"The groves were God's first Temple."
What is the nation? What is law? We have laws only that we may become outlaws (above law).
There is the freedom of the soul; through this we know the freedom of law. I am of the nation of those who seek the liberty of the soul. I am of the nation of those who worship God.
The divine ones of God are all my Masters. I learn of your Christ in learning of Krishna, of Buddha, in learning of Mohamet. I worship God alone. "I am existence absolute, bliss absolute, Knowledge Absolute." I condemn nothing that I find in nation, state or religion, finding God in all. Our growth is not from evil to good, but from good to better, and so on and on. I learn from all that is called evil or good. The nation and all such nonsense may go. It is love, love, love God and my brother.
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- www.vivekananda.net edited by Frank Parlato Jr.
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