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Page 1: Sw Brahmavidyananda rev - Vedanta Monastery at San …sandiegovedanta.org/.../2013/09/Sw_Brahmavidyananda_rev.pdf · 2013-09-24 · Swami Brahmavidyananda Swami Brahmavidyananda,

Swami Brahmavidyananda

Swami Brahmavidyananda, a monk of the Ramakrishna Order, took his monastic vows in 1990

and has been carrying on the universal message of visionary prophet Swami Vivekananda, who

in the 1890′s was among the first to bring the concept of religious acceptance from India to

America. Swami Brahmavidyananda describes the path of Vedanta as “bringing democracy to

religion. Vivekananda believed that all religions are not only necessary, but essential to the

human spirit which, due to race and culture, has the need for diversity as obviously expressed

by the various paths & religions,” he explains. “Vivekananda never used the words ‘religious

tolerance’ because that infers one’s sense of superiority over another. He always preferred to

say ‘religious acceptance’.”