Swami Vivekananda Quotes
It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.
Vivekananda, Swami. The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Vol. 1, Advaita Ashrama, 1977.
Ironically most American politicians are independent of crowned-kings, but are very depended on money-kings and land-kings for campaign contributions and in some cases, jobs if they are defeated at the polls.
He particularly had difficulty with the Pope and whose authority was supposed to be dominant in Europe. King Henry left the Catholic Church and made Protestantism the official English Church. It has been such ever since—all the result of a power struggle between two men.
He was a poor governor in general and was fired and replaced by the Dutch East India Company which was a happy occurrence for the colonists. The company was a money making institution and depended on colonists who would farm, trade and manufacture. If they were unhappy, the company would not profit. They would not have minded a tyrant if he could produce profits as some did in the Dutch East Indies, but Kieft was a loser on all counts.
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.
