A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda
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A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

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""38LHINDUISM AS A RELIGION.SOUL ISETERNAL.Well, then, the human soul is eternal a^d immortal,perfect and infinite, and death means only a change of centrefrom one body to another. The present is determined byour past actions, and the future will be by the present.Tin- soul will go on evolving up or reverting back frombirth to birth :m<l death to death. It is like a tinyboat in a tempest, raised one moment on the foamingrro.st of a billow and dashed down into a yawning chasmthe next, rolling to and fro atthe mercy of good and badactions a powcrlrs>, helpless wreck in an ever-raging,ever-rushing, uncompromising current of cause and effect ;a little moth placed under the wheel of causation which rollson crushing everything in its way,and waits not for thewidow s tears or the orphan s cry.The heart sinks at this idea, yet such is the law ofNature. Is there no hope? Is there no escape? The crythat went up from the bottom of the heart of dreached the throne of Mercy, and words of hope and consols. tion came down and inspired a Vedic sage, and hestood up before the world and in trumpet voice proclaimedthe glad tidings to the world. Hear, ye children of immortal bliss, even ye that reside in higher spheres, I havefound the way out, I have found the ancient One, who isbeyond all darkness, nil delusion, and knowing Him aloneyou shall be saved from death Children ofagain."immortal bliss,"what a sweet, what a hopeful name. Allowme to call you, brethren, by that sweet name heirs ofimmortal bliss yea, the Hindu refuses to callyousinners.CHILDREN OF GOD.Ye are the children of God; the sharers of immortalbliss, holy and perfect beings. Ye, divinities on earth,

"""HeHINDUISM AS A RELIGION. 39sinners ? It is a sin to call a man so. It is a standinglibel on human nature. Come up! lions and shake offthe delusion that you are sheep you are souls immortal,spirits free and blest and eternal, ye are not matter, yeare not bodies. Matter isyour servant, not you the servant of matter.Thus it is that the Vedas proclaim, not a dreadfulcombination of unforgiving laws, not an endless prison ofcause and effect, but that at the head of all natural laws,in and through every particle of matter and force, standsOne through whose command the wind blows, the firethe earth."burns, the clouds rain and death stalks uponAnd what is His nature ?He iseverywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful.Thou art our father, Thouart our mother, Thou art our beloved friend, Thou artthe source of all strength. Thou art He that beareth theburdens of the universe ; help me bear the little burden ofthis life." Thus sang the Rishis of the Veda. And howare we to worship Him ?Through love.worshipped as the one beloved,is to bedearer than every thing inthis and the next life."Thh is the doctrine of love preached in the Vedas, andlet us see how it is fully developed and preached byKrishna, whom the Hindus believe to have been God incarnate on earth.KRISHNA S TEACHING.He taught that a man ought to live in this world likea lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistenedby water so a man ought to live in this world with hisheart for God and his hands for work. %It isgood to love God for hope of reward in this orthe next world, but it is better to love God for love s sake

""38LHINDUISM AS A RELIGION.SOUL ISETERNAL.Well, then, the human soul is eternal a^d immortal,perfect and infinite, and death means only a change of centrefrom one body to another. The present is determined byour past actions, and the future will be by the present.Tin- soul will go on evolving up or reverting back frombirth to birth :m<l death to death. It is like a tinyboat in a tempest, raised one moment on the foamingrro.st of a billow and dashed down into a yawning chasmthe next, rolling to and fro atthe mercy of good and badactions a powcrlrs>, helpless wreck in an ever-raging,ever-rushing, uncompromising current of cause and effect ;a little moth placed under the wheel of causation which rollson crushing everything in its way,and waits not for thewidow s tears or the orphan s cry.The heart sinks at this idea, yet such is the law ofNature. Is there no hope? Is there no escape? The crythat went up from the bottom of the heart of dreached the throne of Mercy, and words of hope and consols. tion came down and inspired a Vedic sage, and hestood up before the world and in trumpet voice proclaimedthe glad tidings to the world. Hear, ye children of immortal bliss, even ye that reside in higher spheres, I havefound the way out, I have found the ancient One, who isbeyond all darkness, nil delusion, and knowing Him aloneyou shall be saved from death Children ofagain."immortal bliss,"what a sweet, what a hopeful name. Allowme to call you, brethren, by that sweet name heirs ofimmortal bliss yea, the Hindu refuses to callyousinners.CHILDREN OF GOD.Ye are the children of God; the sharers of immortalbliss, holy and perfect beings. Ye, divinities on earth,

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