A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"NoneCHRIST, THE MESSENGER. 473You rfjndI, little men, we are simply the recipientsA few minutes, a few hours, a fewof just a little energy.years at bes* ,are enough to spend it all out,to stretch itout, as it were, to its fullest length, and wf) are gone forever. But mark this giant that came : centuries and ages"pass ; yet the energy that he left upon the world is not yetstretched, jiot yet expended to its full. It goes on, almostadding new vigour as ages roll on.^Now, wha*t you see in the life of Christ is the life ofall the past. The life of every man is, in a manner, the"life of the past. It comes to him through heredity, throughsurroundings, through education, through his own reincarnatjon,past of the race. In a manner, the past ofthetheJearth, the past of the whole world, is there upon everyan effectsoul. What are we, in the present, but a result,in the hands of that infinite past? What are we butfloating wavelets in the eternal current of events, irresistibly moved forward and onward and incapableBut you and I are only little things, bubbles. Thereof rest.are some giant waves, always, in the ocean of affairs ;andin you and I, the life of the past race has been embodiedonly a little but there are;giants who embody, as it were,almost the whole of the past and who stretch out handsfor the future. These are the sign posts of the march ofhumanity, here and there, gigantic, their shadow coveringthe earth, they stand undying, eternal ! Here they are,verily. As it has been said by the same Messenger :hath seen God ;but they have seen the Son." Andthat is true. And where to see God but in the Son ? Itis true that you and I, the poorest of us, the meanest,even embody that God, even reflect that God. The vibration of light iseverywhere omnipresent, but we have tostrike out the light of the lamp there, and then we