A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

VEDANTA. 395j"Enter into Nirvana, the blissful." The defect was here;so long the Advaita has only been worked on the spiritualand that was allplan<% ;now the time has come when youhave to make it practical. It shall no more be a rahasya,a secret, it shall no more live with monks in caves andforests, and in the Himalayas it must come down to the;daily, every day life of the people it shall be worked out in;the palace o the king, in the cave of the recluse, it shallbe worked out in the cottage of the poor, by the beggar inthe street, everywhere, anywhereit can be worked out.For is not the Gita with us ?Svalpamapyasya dharmasyatray ate mahato bhayat. Therefore, do not fear whether youare a woman or a Sudra, or anything, for this religionis sogreat, says Lord Krishna, that even the least done brings agreat amount of good. TherefoV*^, children of the Aryans,do not sit idle, awake and arise, and stop not till the goalis reached. The time has come when this Advaita is to beworked out practically. Let us bring it down from heavenunto the earth ;this is the present dispensation. Aye, thevoices of our forefathers of old are telling us to stop stopthere, my children. Let your teachings come down lowerand lower until they have permeated the world, till theyhave entered into every pore of society, till they have become the common property of everybody, till they havebecome part and parcel of our lives, tillthey haveenteredinto our veins and tingle with e very drop of blood there.Aye, you may be astonished to hear, but as practicalVedantists the Europeans are better than we are. I usedto stand on the sea-side of New York, and look at the emigrants coming from different countries, crushed, downtrodden, hopeless with a little bundle of clothes all theirunable to look a man inpossession, their clothes all in rags,the face if ; they saw a policeman they were afrazd and