Svāmi Vivekānanda
Svāmi Vivekānanda, at the World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago 11th September, 1893
"Sisters and Brothers of America, ....
I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true. ....
I will quote to you, brethren, a few lines from a hymn which I remember to have repeated from my earliest boyhood, which is every day repeated by millions of human beings: 'As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.'"
आकाशत् पतितं तोयं यथा गच्छति सागरम्
सर्वदेव नमस्कारः श्रीकेशवं प्रति गच्छति
ākāśāt patitam toyam
etā gacchati sāgaram
sarva deva namaskāraḥ
śrīkeśavam prati gacchati