A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

380 VEDANTA.cent, of these vices that you see in every society areon account of this idea of a personal God, and becominga dog before him, this awful idea of the human being Chatthe end and aim of this expression of life, this wonderfulexpression of life, is to become a dog. Says the Buddhistto the Vaishnavist, if your ideal, your aim and goal is to goto a place called Vaikunta where God lives, and therestand before him with folded hands all through, eternity, itis better to commit suicide than do that. The Buddhistmay urge that that is why he is goingto create annihilation Nirvana, to escape this. I am putting these ideasbefore you as a Buddhist just for the time being, becausenow-a-days all these Advaitic ideas are said to make youimmoral, and I am trying to tell you how the other sidelooks. Let us see both sidee- boldly and bravely. We haveseen first of all that this cannot be proved, the idea ofa personal God creating the world; is there any child thatcan believe this to-day? Because a kumbJiakara creates agkata, therefore a God created the world. If this is so,then your kumbkakara is a God also, and if any one tellsyou that he acts without head and hands you may takehim to a lunatic asylum. Has ever your God, the Creatorof the world, personal God and all that to whom you cancry all your life, helped you, and what help have you got ?is the next challenge from modern science. They willprove that any help you have got could have been got byyour own exertions, and better still, you need not havespent your energy in that crying, you could have done it,better without that weeping and crying at all. And wehave seen that along with this idea of a personal Godcomes tyranny and priestcraft. Tyranny and priestcraft,have been everywhere where this idea existed anduntil the lie is knocked on the head, say the Buddhists,