Swami Vivekananda Quotes
A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.
Vivekananda, Swami. The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Vol. 8, Advaita Ashrama, 1989.
Mohamed preached to a simple people and he made analogies that would be understood. Heaven is often depicted as a succulent garden. In this saying women who want to divorce their husbands without sufficient Islamic cause would not go to heaven. This manifests into a strong sexist culture with regard to Islamic marriage rules. This particular passage is not per se a problem; however, there is no parallel stricture on men who under Sharia, Islamic law, can divorce a wife without even going to a court and without ever giving a reason.
Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Datta (Bengali: [nɔrendronatʰ dɔto]), was an Indian Hindu monk. He was a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world, and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. He was a major force in the contemporary Hindu reform movements in India, and contributed to the concept of nationalism in colonial India. Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission. He is perhaps best known for his speech which began with the words "Sisters and brothers of America ...," in which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893.
