Swami Vivekananda about Peculiarity of the Vedas

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II (At the Twentieth Century Club of Boston, U. S. A.)

Volume 5,Questions and Answers

 

Q.—What is the peculiarity of the Vedas?

 

A.—One peculiarity of the Vedas is that they are the only scriptures that

again and again declare that you must go beyond them. The Vedas say that

they were written just for the child mind; and when you have grown, you must

go beyond them.

 

Q.—Do you hold the individual soul to be eternally real?

 

A.—The individual soul consists of a man's thoughts, and they are changing

every moment. Therefore, it cannot be eternally real. It is real only in the

phenomenal. The individual consists of memory and thought, how can that be

real?

 

Q.—Why did Buddhism as a religion decline in India?

 

A.—Buddhism did not really decline in India; it was only a gigantic social

movement. Before Buddha great numbers of animals were killed for sacrifice

and other reasons, and people drank wine and ate meat in large quantities.

Since Buddha's teaching drunkenness has almost disappeared, and the killing

of animals has almost gone.

 

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Om namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram

 

 

 

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Om namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram