A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

What6cMT MASTER.philosophies, (hire away their preachers, and break downtheir temples.Did not the Occidental conqueror, thejnan who demonstrated his religion with sword and gun, say that all the oldways were mere superstition and idolatry? Childrenbrought up and educated in the new schools started on theOccidental plan, drank in these ideas from their childhoodand it is not to be wondered at that doubts arose. Butinstead of throwing away Superstition and making a real"search after truth, the test of truth became doesthe West say? The priest must go, the Vedas must beburned, because the West has said so. Outof the feelingof unrest thus produced, there :m>se a wave of so-calledreform in India .If you wish to be a true reformer, throe things arem-cessai y. The first is to feel ; do you really feel for yourbrothers? Do you really feel that there is so much miseryin the world, so much ignorance and superstition Do ? youivally feel that men are your brothers? Does this ideacome into your whole being ? Does it rmi in your blood ?Does it tingle in your veins ? Does it course through everynerve and filament of your body ? Are you full of that i/ieaof sympathy ? If you are, that is only the first step. Youmust think next if you have found any remedy, ^he.. oldideas may be all superstition, but in and around thesemasses of superstitionare nuggets of gold and truth.Have you discovered means by which to keep that goldalone, without any of the dross ? If you have done that,that is only the second step, one more thing is necessary.What is your motive ? Are you sure that yon are nptactuated by greed for gold, by thirst for fame, or power ?Are you really sure that you can stand to your ideals, and