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WOMEN OF INDIA
(Delivered at the Shakespeare Club House, in Pasadena, California, on
January 18, 1900)
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA: "Some persons desire to ask questions about Hindu
Philosophy before the lecture and to question in general about India after the
lecture; but the chief difficulty is I do not know what I am to lecture on. I
would be very glad to lecture on any subject, either on Hindu Philosophy or on
anything concerning the race, its history, or its literature. If you, ladies and
gentlemen, will suggest anything, I would be very glad."
QUESTIONER: "I would like to ask, Swami, what special principle in Hindu
Philosophy you would have us Americans, who are a very practical people,
adopt, and what that would do for us beyond what Christianity can do."
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA: "That is very difficult for me to decide; it rests upon
you. If you find anything which you think you ought to adopt, and which will
be helpful, you should take that. You see I am not a missionary, and I am not
going about converting people to my idea. My principle is that all such ideas
are good and great, so that some of your ideas may suit some people in India,
and some of our ideas may suit some people here; so ideas must be cast abroad,
all over the world."
QUESTIONER: "We would like to know th