A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"j"WeVEDANVA.do not think the same way as they did when they wereyoung.Where isyour individuality ? Do not sayconsciousness, this akankara, because this only covers asmall part of your existence. While I am talking to you allmy organs are working and I am not conscious of it. Ifit is inconsciousness is the proof of existence they do not existthen,because I am not conscious of them. Where areyou then -\vith your personal God theories ? How canyou prove such a God ?Again, the Buddhists willstand up and declare, not onlyis it illogical,butimmoral, for it teaches man to be a coward and to seekassistance outside, and nobody can give him such help.Here is the universe, man made it, why, then, depend on an imaginary being outside whom nobody eversaw and felt, or got help froa? Why then do you makecowards of yourselves, and teach your children that thehighest state of man is to be a dog, to go crawling beforethis imaginary being, saying that you are weak and impureand that you are everything vile in this universe ? On theother hand the Buddhists may urge not only that you tella lie, but that you bring atremendous amount of evil uponyour children, for, mark you, this world is one of hypnotisation.Whatever you tell yourself that you believe.Almost the first words the great Buddha uttered wereWhat you think, that you are, what you shall think, thatyou shall be." If it is true, d not teach yourselves thatyou are nothing, aye, that you cannot do anythingunless you are helped by somebody who does not livehere, who sits above the dampclouds. The result willbe that you will be more and more weakened everyday;the result will be, are very impure, Lord make uspure," and you will hypnotise yourselves that way intoall sorts of vices. Aye, the Buddhists say that 90 per