A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"THE MISSION OF THE VEDANTA. 441turn and murdered the mother also to becooked and eaten,and that he ordered the child also to be cooked and eaten ;but Jiat the boy fled and after passing through greathardships, travelling through a distance of several hundredsof miles, he reached the seashore, and that there he wastaken into an American vessel and brought over to America.And thisjboy made that speech! After that, what was I tothink of your doctrine of heredity Aye, Brahmkls, if the!Srahmin has more aptitude for learning on the ground ofheredity than the Pariah, spend no more money on the"Brahmin s education but spendall on the Pariah. Give tothe weak, for there all the gift is needed. If the Brahminis born clever, he can educate himself without help.If theothers are not born clever, let them have all the teachingand the teachers they want. This is justice and reason asI understand. These our poor people, therefore, requireto hear and to know what they really are, these downtrodden masses of India, Yea, let every man and womanand child, without respect of caste or birth or weakness orstrength, hear and know that behind the strong and theweak, behind the high and the low, behind every one,there is that Infinite Soul assuring the infinite possibilityand the infinite capacity of all to become great and good.Let us proclaim to every soul-rvaran nibodhataUttishtata Jagrata, prapyaArise, awake and stop not till the goalis reached." Arise, awake ;awake from this hypnotism ofweakness. None is really weak ; the soul is infinite, omnipotent, and omniscient. Stand up, assert yourself, proclaimthe God within you, do not deny. Too much of inactivity,too much of weakness, too much of hypnotism, has beenand is, upon our race. ye modern Hindus, dehypnotiseyourselves. The way to do that is found in your ownsacred books. Teach yourselves, teach every one his real