Some quotes from Swami Vivekananda and JK!!!

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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA (1897):

 

 

Why We Disagree

 

 

I will tell you a story...

 

A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. It was

born there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog. Of

course the evolutionists were not there then to tell us whether it

lost its eyes or not, but for our story's sake we must take it for

granted that it had eyes and that it everyday cleansed the water of

all the worms and bacilli that lived in it, with an energy that would

do credit to our modern bacteriologists. In this way it went on and

became a little sleek and fat. Well, one day another frog that lived

in the sea came and fell into the well.

 

"Where are you from?"

 

"I am from the sea."

 

"The sea! How big is that? Is it as big as my well? And he took a

leap from one side of the well to the other.

 

"My friend", said the frog of the sea, "how do you compare the sea

with your well?"

 

Then the frog took another leap and asked, "Is your sea so big?"

 

"What nonsense you speak, to compare the sea with your well!"

 

"Well, then," said the frog of the well, "nothing can be bigger than

my well. There can be nothing bigger than this. This fellow is a

liar. Turn him out."

 

That has been the difficulty all the while. I am a Hindu. I am

sitting in my own well and thinking that the whole world is my little

well. The Christian sits in his little well and thinks the whole

world is his well. The Mohammedan sits in his well and thinks that is

the whole world..."

 

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Some quotes from JK (1928):

 

 

"I maintain that truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it

by any path whatever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth cannot be

organised,.... I do not want any followers, and I mean this...You

have the idea that only certain people hold the key to the kingdom of

happiness. No one holds it. No one has the authority to hold that

key. That key is your own Self." (1928)

 

 

"Most of us are used to being told what to do. The giving and

following of directions is considered to be positive teaching. To be

lead appears to be positive. But truth is the negation of false, not

the opposite of false."

 

 

"We are so concerned with our own problems, or we are so conditioned,

so heavily burdened with belief, with tradition, with the past, that

this actually prevents us from seeing or listening."

 

 

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My comments: Truth or knowledge is no one country's or man's property

or copyright. No one can can claim any knowledge as having come from

a particular school or guru or country exclusively. It is another

form- a more subtler one - of ego that makes us believe so. Till one

breaks free from this kind of conditioning that everything was known

to our ancestors, that everything, every great idea was born in

India, we will be misleading ourselves. Every ancient culture, every

ancient race contributed to what we have today. Humanity's heritage

is common to all, and comes from all. Babylonians, Iranians

(Zorastrian), Greeks, Egyptians, ..., every single ancient race had

its own contribution. In fact knowledge comes from One Source, the

common Source.

 

 

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Regards,

Satya