A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"philosophy,"24 MY MASTER.another as mysticism, in others a> and soforth. It iswrong when we say to others : Yourmethods are not right. To learn this central secretthat the Truth may be one and yet many at thesame time, that we may have different visions of thesame Truth from different standpoints, is exactly whatmust be done.Then, instead of antagonism to anyone, weshall have infinitewith>yinpathyall.Knowingas long as there are different natures born into this worldthey will require different applicationsof the samereligious truths, we shall understand that we art- bound tohave forbearance with each other. Just as Nature isunityin variety, an infinite variation in the phenomenal, andbehind all these variations, the Infinite, the rncliaiigeaMe,the Absolute, so it is with every man ;the microco-mis but a miniature repetition of the macrocosm in ; spite ofall these variations, in and through them all runs thiseternal harmony, and we have to recognise this.This idea,above all other ideas,I find to be the crying necessity ofthe day. Coming from a country which is a hotbed of religious sects through good fortune or ill fortune, everyonewho has a religion! idea wants to send an advance guardthere from my childhood I have been acquainted M ith thevarious sects of the world ;even the Marmons camfe topreach in India. Welcome them all ! That is the soil onwhich to preach religion. There it takes root more than inany other country. If you come and teach politics to theHindus they do not understand, but ifyou come to preachreligion however curious it may be, youwill have hundredsand thousands of followers in no time, and you have everychance of becoming a living god in your life-time. I amglad it is so, it is the one thing we want in IndiA. Thesects among the Hindus are various, almostinfinite in