A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

470 THE SAGES OF INDIA.every Vaishnavite preaher, we find a wonderfuMiberalismas to the teaching of caste questions, but excli^iveness asregards religious questions.The one Shad a great head, the other a large heart, andthe time was ripe for one to be born the embodiment ofboth head and heart, the time was ripe for one to be born rwho in one body would have the brilliant intellect of.Sankaraand- the wonderfully expansive, infinite heart ofChaitanya, one who would see in every secttihe same working, the same God, as well as see God in every being, onewhose heart would weep for the poor, for the weak, for theoutcast, for the downtrodden, for every one in this world,inside India or outside India, and at the same time, wfyosegrandbrilliant intellect would conceive of such mkblethoughts as WQu]d jiarmonise all conflicting sects, not onlyin India but outside of India ;and bring a marvellousharmony, the universal religionof head and heart intoexistence, and such a man was born and I had the goodfortune to sit under his feet for years. The time wasripe,it was necessary that such a man should beborn, and he came, and the most wonderful part of itwas that his life s work was just near a city whichwas full of Western thoughts, which had run mad afterthese occidental ideas, a city which had becomemore Europeanised than any other city in India.There he was born, without any book-learning whatsoever,he could not write his own name, this great intellect,never could write his own name but everybody, themost brilliant graduates of our university found in himan intellectual giant. That was a curious man. It isa long, long story and I have no time to tell anythingabout him to-night. I had better stop, only mentioning thegreat Sri Ramakrishna, the fulfilment of the Indian sages