Statue of Sri Ramakrishna in Main Temple, Belur Math
World Headquarters of Ramakrishna Math and Mission, Calcutta.
Photo by Swami Shantarupananda, September 1998.

"This is the message of Sri Ramakrishna to the modern world: 'Do not care for doctrines, do not care for dogmas or sects or churches or temples.  They count for little compared with the essence of existence in each man, which is spirituality; and the more a man develops it, the more power he has for good.  Earn that first, acquire that, and criticize no one; for all doctrines and creeds have some good in them.  Show by your lives that religion does not mean words or names or sects, but that it means spiritual realization.  Only those can understand who have felt.  Only those who have attained to spirituality can communicate it to others, can be great teachers of mankind.  They alone are the powers of light.'"

- Swami Vivekananda, in "My Master"