VERIFICATION IS THE ONLY PROOF OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH

Obey the scriptures until you are strong enough to do without them; then go beyond them. Books are not an end-all. Verification is the only proof of religious truth. Each must verify for himself; and no teacher who says, "I have seen, but you cannot", is to be trusted, only that one who says, "You can see too". All scriptures, all truths are Vedas in all times, in all countries; because these truths are to be seen, and any one may discover them.

- Swami Vivekananda
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 7/Inspired Talks/Monday, June 24

NO FEAR! SPEAK NO MORE OF GOD AND SUPERSTITION OF THE WORLD. I AM THE INFINITE

[It is] difficult. Struggle on! Down with all superstitions! Neither teachers nor scriptures nor gods [exist]. Down with temples, with priests, with gods, with incarnations, with God himself! I am all the God that ever existed! There, stand up philosophers! No fear! Speak no more of God and [the] superstition of the world. Truth alone triumphs, and this is true. I am the Infinite.

- Swami Vivekananda
(Delivered on March 25, 1900, in the San Francisco Bay Area)The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/Mohammed