Swami Vivekananda: VEDIC RELIGIOUS IDEALS :1.

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Swami Vivekananda: VEDIC RELIGIOUS IDEALS :1.: What concerns us most is the religious thought — on soul and God and all that appertains to religion. We will take the Samhitâs. The...

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