This is why Vivekananda declared at the Parliament of Religions in 1893, ‘May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians, give strength to you… The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian. But each must assimilate the spirit of the others and yet preserve his individuality and grow according to his own law of growth… The Parliament of Religions… has proved… that holiness, purity and charity are not the exclusive possessions of any church in the world…’