A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

VEDANTA. 307jcome to the laststage to which a human beingcan come.For* what countryis there in the world where man has towith the cattle ? And for this blame nobody else, dosleepnot commit the mistake of the ignorant. The effect ishere and the cause is here too. We are to blame. Standup, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders*-Do not go about throwing mud at others for all;the faultsyou suffer ytfu are the sole and only cause.Young men of Lahore, understand this, therefore,this great sin, hereditary and national, is on your shoulders.There is no hope for us. You may make thousands ofsocieties, twenty thousand political assemblages, fifty thousand institutions. These will be of no use until there isthat sympathy, that love, that heart, that thinks for all,until Buddha s heart comes once more into India, until thewords of Lord Krishnaare brought to their practical usethere is no hope for us. You go on imitating the Europeans and their societies and their assemblages, but let metell you a story, a fact that I saw with my own eyes. Acompany of Burmans was taken over to London by somepersons here, who turned out to be Eurasians. They exhibited these people in London, took all the money, and thentook these Burmans over to the Continent, and left themthere for good or evil. These poor people did not knowany word of any European language, but the English Consulin Austria sent them over to London. They were helplessin London, without knowing any one. But an Englishlady got to know of them, took these foreigners fromBurma into her own house, gave them her own clothes,her bed, and everything, and then sent the news to thenewspapers. And, mark you, the next day the wholenation was, as it were, roused. Money poured in andthese people were helped out, and sent back to Burma. On