A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

MAYA AND THE CONCEPTION OF GOD. 181social they are all the same, and religion must come intois religsociety, must come into every day of our lives. Ition, nothing but religion in the full sense of the word.In the light of Vedanta you will understand that all yoursciences are but manifestations of religion,and so is everything that exists in this world.We see, then, that through this freedom these scienceswere built, and there we have two sets of opinions, two setsgrowing slowly in the teaching of the Vedanta,the oneabout whom I have just told you were materialists, thedenouncers, and the other were positive, not negative. Thisiigain is a most curious fact in ; every society you find it.Supposing there is an evil in society.You will find immediately pne set rise up and begin to denounce itin vindictive fashion. These sometimes degenerate into fanatics.You always find them in every society, and women mostlyjoin in these outcries, because they are impulsive in theirnature. Every fanatic who gets up and denounces something gets a following. It isvery easy to break a maniac;can break everything he likes, but it would be hard for themaniac to build anything in this world.So there is this set of denouncers in every country,present in some form or other, and they think they willmend this world by the sheer power of denunciation andexposing of evil ; they do some good, according to theirlight, but much more evil, because things are not done in aday. Social institutions are not made in a day, and tochange means removing the cause. Suppose there is evilhere ; denouncing it will not do anything, but you must goto work at the root. First find out the cause, then removeit, and all the effect will be removed by itself. All thiscrying will not produce any effect, unless indeed it produces misfortune.