Swami Vivekananda Quote

We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika.


Complete Works (ed. 1966)


We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is...

We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is...

We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is...

We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is...