“… all that can be said in religion can be counted on a few fingers. That does not matter; it is the man that results that grows out of it. You take a lump of mist in your hand, and gradually, gradually, it develops into a man. Salvation is nothing in itself, it is only a motive. All those things are nothing, except as motives. It is the man they form, that is everything….After all, this world is a series of pictures, and man-making is the great interest running through. We were all watching the making of men, and that alone.”
(p.272, Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda, Swamiji told this to Nivedita on 8 May 1899)