A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"Arundhati"Urdhva"SWAMl S REPLY TO THE ADDRESSES. 71The restless Western atheist or agnostic finds in theGita or in the 5)hammapada the only place where his soulcan anchor.The tables have been turned, and the Hindu, whosaw through tears of despair his ancient homestead coveredwith incendiary fire ignited by unfriendly hands, now seeswhen the search -light of modern thought has dispersed thesmoke, that his home is the one that isstanding in all itsstrength, and that all the rest have either vanished or arebeing built anew after the Hindu plan. He has wiped offhis tears, and has found that the axe that tried to cutdown to the roots, themulam adhah sakhamasvatham prahuravyayam has proved the merciful knifeof the surgeon.He has found that he has neither to torture text norcommit any other form of intellectual dishonesty to savehis religion. Nay, he may call all that is weak in hisscriptures, weak because they were meant to be so by theancient sages, to help the weak, under the theory ofdarsana nyaya."Thanks to the ancient sageswho have discovered such an all-pervading, ever-expandingsystem of religion that can accommodate all that has beendiscovered in the realm of matter, and all that is to beknown; He has begun to appreciate them anew, and discover anew that those discoveries which have proved sodisastrous to every limited little scheme of religion are butrediscoveries, in the plane of intellect and sense-consciousness, of truths which his ancestors had discoveredages ago in the higher plane of intuition and superconsciousness.He has not, therefore, had to give up anything, nor goabout seeking for anything anywhere, but it will be enoughfor him if he can utilize only a little from the infinite store