Vivekananda Mailing List-9/18/02

[Guest guest]

Some exceptions may be taken in the case of the Buddhists as

represented by the Southern sect. It may be asked - if the Buddhists

do not believe in any God or soul, how can their religion be derived

from the supersensuous state of existence? The answer to this is that

even the Buddhists find an eternal moral law, and that moral law was

not reasoned out in our sense of the word. But Buddha found it,

discovered it, in a supersensuous state. Those of you who have

studied the life of Buddha even as briefly given in that beautiful

poem, The Light of Asia, may remember that Buddha is represented as

sitting under the Bo-tree until he reached that supersensuous state

of mind. All his teachings came through this, and not through

intellectual cogitations.