Vivekananda on the Vedas (part 114)

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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON THE VEDAS AND UPANISHADS

By Sister Gayatriprana

part 114

 

3. The Greatest Gurus Are the Incarnations of God

From the very earliest times our sages have been feeling conscious of the fact that the vast majority of humankind require a personality. They must have a personal God in some form or another. The very Buddha who declared against the existence of a personal God had not died fifty years before his disciples manufactured a personal God out of him. The personal God is necessary; and at the same time we know that instead of and better than the vain imaginations of a personal God, in which ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are unworthy of human worship, we have in this world, living and talking in our midst, living Gods, now and then. These are more worthy of worship than any imaginary God, any creation of our imagination - that is to say, any idea of God which you or I can have. Buddha is a much higher idea, a more living and idolized ideal than the ideal you or I can conceive of in our minds; and therefore it is that they have always commanded the worship of humankind, even to the exclusion of the imaginary deities .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cross reference to:

Brih. Up., 2.4.14

Gita 4.7-8