A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

""334 GOD IN EVERYTHING.We do not find it. We are in it ;it is around us all thetime, and we are always mistaking it. Religions proposeto find this out for us. This blissful Universe is the i3alsearch in all hearts. It has been the .search of all nationsit is the one goal of religion, and this ideal is expressed invarious languages, and all the petty differences betweenreligions and religions are mere word -struggles, nonsense.It is only difference of language that makes all these differences ;one expresses a thought in one way, another alittle differently, yet perhaps. I am saying exactly whatyou are saying in different language. Then I say:Thisis my original idea,"because I want to get some praise, orto have things my own way. That is how struggles comein this life of ours.So more questions arise in connection with this. Itis very easy to talk about. From mychildhood I haveheard of this putting God everywhere and everything"becomes deified, and then I can enjoy everything, but assoon as I come into this world, and get a few blows fromit, everything vanishes. I am going out into the street tothink that God is in every man, and a strong man comesand gives me a push and I fall flat on the footpath. ThenI rise up quickly, and the blood has rushed into my head,and my fist is closed and reflection goes. Immediately Ibecome mad. Everything is forgotten, instead of encountering] God I see the devil. We have been told to see Godsince we were born ; every religion has taught that seeGod in everything and everywhere. Do you not rememberin the New Testament how Christ explicitly says so. Wehave all been taught that, but it is when we come to thepractical side, that the difficulty begins. You all rememberhow in sff sop s Fables a fine big stag is looking at hispicture reflected in a lake, and says to his child,How