A GOD EVERY DAY1
[Detroit Tribune, February 19, 1894]
RABBI GROSSMAN IS REFRESHED BY SWAMI VIVE KANANDA
. . . “I take your Jesus,” Kananda said last Saturday evening [February 17]. (Vide “The Divinity of Man” (Complete Works, III: 496-501 ) and “Is India a Benighted Country?” (Complete Works, IV: 198-202 ).)
I take him to my heart as I take all the great and good of all lands and of all times. But you, will you take my Krishna to your heart? No — you cannot, you dare not — still you are the cultured and I am the heathen. . . .
- ^Vide: New Discoveries, Vol. 1, p. 348. This extract is from a sermon by Rabbi Grossman, “What Vive Kananda Has Taught Us”, delivered February 18, 1894.