PRINCIPLES RATHER THAN CULT

When Vivekananda first visited the United States, he did not come as a missionary of a Ramakrishna cult but as an exponent of Vedanta philosophy.  In the majority of his lectures, he referred to Ramakrishna rarely or not at all. 

On his return to India, when he talked about this period, he often said, "If I had preached the personality of Sri Ramakrishna, I might have converted half the world; but that kind of conversion is shortlived.  So instead I preached Ramakrishna's principles.  If people accept the principles, they will eventually accept the personality."