A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"Know4MAX MULLER A VEDANTIST. 575flowers, tjjte calmness, and the clear skyall these sent meback jn imagination to the glorious days of Aneierji^jftTcIiathe days of ourtBrahmariskis and Rajarishis, th&aiys of thegreat Vanaprasthas, the days of Arundhatis and Vasishtas.It wa* neither the Philologist nor the Scholar that Isaw, but a soul that is every day realising its oneness withthe Jtyakmah, a heart that is every moment expanding,to re?tcfc oneness with the universal. Where others losethemselves in the desert of day details, he has* struck awell^ife. Indeed his heart-beats have caught therhythm of the Upanishads,thyself and leave offall other talk."Although a world-moving scholar and philosopher, hislearning and philosophy have pnly led him higher andhigher to the realization of the spirit ;his lower knowledge has, indeed, helped him to reach the higher. This isreal learning. Knowledge gives rise to humility. Ofwhat use isknowledge if it does not show us the way tothe highest ?And what love he bears towards India !*I wish I hada hundredth part of that love for my own motherland. Anextraordinary and at the same time, intensely activemind, has lived and moved in the world of Indian thoughtfor fifty years or more, and watched the sharp interchangeof light and shade in the interminable forest of Sanskritliterature with keen interest and heartfelt love, till they*have all sunk into his whole soul and% coloured his wholebeing. \Max Muller is a Vedantist of Yedantists. He has, in- *deed, caught the real soul of the melody of the Yedanta inthe midst of all its settings of harmonies or discords theone light that lightens up the sects and creeds of the world,the Vedanta, the one principle of which all religions are