Vedanta lays down that each man should be treated not as
what he manifests, but as what he stands for. Each human being stands for the
divine, and therefore, every teacher should be helpful, not by condemning man,
but by helping him to call forth, the divinity that is within him.
It also teaches that all the vast mass of energy that we see
displayed in society and in every plane of action is really from inside out;
and therefore what is called inspiration by other sects, the Vedantist begs the
liberty to call the expiration of man.
At the same time, it does not quarrel with other sects; the
Vedanta has no quarrel with those who do not understand this divinity of man.
Consciously or unconsciously, every man is trying to unfold
that divinity. Man is like an infinite spring, coiled up in a small box, and
that spring is trying to unfold itself; and all the social phenomena that we
see are the result of this trying to unfold.
– Swami Vivekananda
– Swami Vivekananda