A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

THE RELATION OF BUDDHISM TO HINDUISM. 491present ^day there is not one man or woman who callshii*self a Buddhist in India, the motherland of its birth.On th,^ other hand, Brahminism lost something thatreforming zeal, that wonderful sympathy and charityeverybody, that wonderful leaven which Buddhism broughtinto* the masses and which rendered Indian society sogrgattha*fc a Greek historian who writes about India wasled to say that no Hindu was known to tell an untruth andno Hindu woman was known to be unchaste.We cannot live without you, nor you without us.Then believe that separation has shown to us, that youcannot stand without the brain and philosophy of theBrahman, nor we without your heart. This separationBetween the Buddhists and the Brahmans is the causeof the downfall of India. That iswhy India j^opulatedby 300,000,000, of beggars, and that is why India hasbeen the slave of conquerors for the last 1,000 years.Let us then join the wonderful intellect of the Brahmanwith the heart, the noble soul, the wonderful humanisingforpower of the Great Master. -: o :