Swami Vivekananda about are Christ and Buddha Identical?

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Notes Of Class Talks

Volume 8, Notes Of Class Talks And Lectures

 

It is my particular fancy that the same Buddha became Christ. Buddha

prophesied, " I will come again in five hundred years " , and Christ came here in

five hundred years. These are the two Lights of the whole human nature. Two men

have been produced, Buddha and Christ; these are the two giants, huge gigantic

personalities, two Gods. Between them they divide the whole world. Wherever

there is the least knowledge in the world, people bow down either to Buddha or

Christ. It would be very hard to produce more like them, but I hope there will

be. Mohammed came five hundred years after, five hundred years after came Luther

with his Protestant wave, and this is five hundred years after that again. It is

a great thing in a few thousand years to produce two such men as Jesus and

Buddha. Are not two such enough? Christ and Buddha were Gods, the others were

prophets. Study the life of these two and see the manifestation of power in them

-- calm and non - resisting, poor beggars owning nothing, without a cent in

their pockets, despised all their lives, called heretic and fool -- and think of

the immense spiritual power they have wielded over humanity.

 

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Om namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram