A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"HeI392 VEDANTA.Something more has to be told as about the moralrelation. Our boys blithely talk now-a-days, they learnfrom somebody Lord knows from whom that Advaitjstswill make people all immoral, because if we are all one andall God, we need not be moral at all. In the first place, thatis the argument of the brute, who can only be kept down bythe whip. If you are such a brute, commit suicide first,rather than be such human beings, ifthey are be keptdown by the whip. If the whip goes away, you will all bedemons ! You oughtall to be just killed here if such is thecase ;there is no help for you ; you must always be livingunder this whip and rod, and there is no salvation, no escapefor you. In the second place, this and this alone explainsmorality. Every religion preaches that the essence of all? Be unmorailty is to do good unfcp- others. And whyselfish. And why ? Some godhas said it. He is not forme. Some texts have told it. Let them all tell it ;that isnothing to me ;let them all tell it. And ifthey do, what isit ? Each one for himself, and somebody for the hindermost,that is all the morality in the world, at least withI should be moral ? Youmany. What is the reason whycannot explain it except when you come to know.and himself inwho sees everyone in himself,everyone, thus seeing the same god living in all in the samethe self."manner, the sage no more kills the self byKnow through Advaita that j whomever you hurt you hurtyourself ; they are all you. Whether you know it or notthrough all hands you work, through all feet you move,you are the king enjoying in the palace, you are the beggarleading that miserable existence in the street, you are inthe ignorant as well as in the learned, you are in the manwho is weak, and you are in the strong know this;andbe sympathetic.And that iswhy we must not hurt others .