Svami Shri Vivekananda on OM Temple

        Of course this is a very big scheme, a very big plan.  I do not know

whether it will ever work out.  But we must begin the work.  But how?

Take Madras, for instance.  We must have a temple, for with Hindus

religion must come first.  Then, you may say, all sects will quarrel about

it.  But we will make it a non-sectarian temple, having only "Om" as the

symbol, the greatest symbol of any sect.  If there is any sect here which

believes that "Om" ought not to be the symbol, it has not right to call

itself Hindu.  All will have the right to interpret Hinduism, each one

according to his own sect ideas, but we must have a common temple.  You

can have your own images and symbols in other places, but do not quarrel

here with those who differ from you.  Here should be taught the common

grounds of our different sects, and at the same time the different sects

should have perfect liberty to come and teach their doctrines, with only

one restriction, that is not to quarrel with other sects.  Say what you have

to say, the world wants it; but the world has no time to hear what you

think about other people; you can keep that to yourselves.

                pp. 302-303 "The Future of India" from Lectures from Colombo to Almora