“Often our scriptures are accused for the present decadence of our civilization. But, in fact, the degeneration of India began when we started distancing ourselves from the true purport of the scriptures.
The knowledge that is based on uncompromising enquiry and subtlest reasoning, was belittled as mystic; the scriptures that emphasize relentlessly our self-effort, were ignorantly considered as fatalistic; and the universal ‘Dharma’ based on a comprehensive understanding of human personality, was ignorantly termed as idolatry.”
- Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha