The Three Most Important Things to Understand in Spirituality | Vivekananda's Message to the West

As Buddha had a message for the East, so too did Swami Vivekananda have a message for the West, if not for the whole world. What was that message? While it is of course a very multifaceted, variegated and nuanced message, three core principles stand out; we explore them in the course of this lecture, as part of our Vivekananda Jayanti celebrations earlier this month. These principles are: 1. Religion is a matter of Direct Experience, not dogma. Inspired by his teacher Ramakrishna who ...