A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"Our""CHRIST, THE MESSENGER. 483state of light which is God himself. Some embody alowe% view} some a higher, and that is all the difference.Therefore, the religion of the unthinking masses mustbe, and have always been, all over the worlft, of a Godwho is outside of the universe ;who lives in Heaven ;who governs from that place who is a; punisher of thebad and r^warder of the good, and so on.As man advanced, he began to feel Godtjfiatwas omnipresent that God must be in us; ;that Godmust be everywhere. He is not a distant God. He is*clearly the Soul of our souls. As my soul is moving mybody, so, that which you call God is the mover, even ofmysoul. Soul within soul !:f And a few individuals who had developed enoughand were pure enough, went* farther.i\jst, tne7found God. Says the New Testament Blessed are"the pure in spirit, for they shall see God." And, at last,they found God :they, themselves, and the Father wereone.You find all these three stages taught by the GreatTeacher in the New Testament. You see the commonprayer: mark you,it is the "common prayer" becauseit is for the masses, for the uryeducated, for the illiterateFather which art in Heaven, hallowed be Thyname and so on ;a simple, material, ignorant child ssimple prayer.To a higher circle, to those who had grown a littleas I amhigher, here you have another "teaching For, :in thee, and ye in me, so we are all one in the Father."Do you remember that ?And then, when the Jews asked him what he was,he declared that he and his father were one ;and theJews thought that that was blasphemy.What do you