A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

tyranny will not cease. So longVEDANTA. 381as man thinks he hasto cower before another strong being, there will be prieststo daim rights and privileges and to make men cowerbefore them, these poor men will continue to ask a priestknock theto stand as interceders for them. You maybut mark me that those who do soBrahmin on the head,will stand in their place, and will be worse, because thesehave a certain amount of generosity in them,and theseupstarts are the worst of tyrannisers always. If a tbeggargets wealth, he thinks the whole world is a bit of straw.So these priests there will be, so long as this personal Godidea will be, and it will be impossible to think of anygreat morality in society. Priestcraft and tyranny willgo hand in hand and why was it invented ? Because somestrong men in old times gofr people in their hands andsaid you must obey us or we will destroy you. That wasthe long and short of itSiibhayam vajramudyatum.It is the idea of a thunderer, who kills everyonewho does not obey him, and so on. Next the Buddhist says you have been so rational up to this that yousay that everythingis the result of the law of karma. You allbelieve in an infinite of souls, and that souls are withoutbirth or death, and this infinity of souls and the belief in thelaw of karma, is perfect logic no doubt. There cannot be acause without an effect, the present must have had its causein the past, and will have its effect in the future. TheHindu says the karma isjada and not chaitanya, thereforesomechaitanya is necessary to bring this cause to fruition.Is it that chaitanya is necessary to bring the plantto fruition ? If I add water and plant the seed, no chaitanya isnecessary.You may say there was some original Chaitanya^but the souls themselves were the Chaitanya, none else isnecessary. If human souls have it too, what necessity