A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"""""""Moksha"""Gnana""""54 SWAMI S REPLY TO THE ADDRESSES.However great may be the merits of the Samhitathe Brahmana portions of the Yedas to the ethnologist orthe philologist, however desirable may be the results whicLthe Agnimide or theIshetvorjetva or the Sannodevirabhishtayein conjunction with the different vedis andsacrifices and libations produce, it was all in the way ofBhoga ; and no one ever contended that they couldproduceMoksha." As such, theKanda,"theAranyakas, the Srutis par excellence, which teach the wajto spirituality, theMarga,"have always ruledand will always rule in India.Lost in the mazes and divisions of the "religioneternalby prepossession and prejudice, unable to grasp the meaning of the only religion whose universal isadaptation theexact shadow of the Anoraniyjin Mahato MahiyanGod it preaches, groping in the dark with a standard ofspiritual truth borrowed second hand from nations whonever knew anything but rank materialism, the modernyoung Hindu struggles in vain to understand the religionof his fore-fathers, and gives up the quest altogether andbecomes a hopeless wreck of an agnostic, or else, unable tovegetate on account of lie promptings of his innate\religious nature, drinks carelessly of some of those different decoctions of Western materialism with an easternflavour, and thus fulfills the prophecy of the Sruti,"Pariyanti mudha andhenaiva niyamana yathandhah. rThey alone escape whose spiritual nature has beentouched and vivified by the life-giving touch of theSadguru."Well has it been said by Bhagavan BhashyakaraDurlabham trayamevaitat devanugraha hetukam.Manushyatvam, mumukhshutvam, maha-purushasans-rayah."