A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

THE FREEDOM OF THE SOUL. 143flowing by ? If this be the truth, that they are all pure, whynot at this moment teach it to the whole world ? Saintsand sinners, men, women and children, great or small,why not teach it with the voice of thunder, teach it toevery man that is born and ever will come into the world,the man on the throne or the man sweeping the streets,rich or poor ? I am the King of kings ; there is no kinghigher than I. I am the God of gods ;there is no Godhigher than I.It appears now a very big and a very great undertaking, to many it appears very startling, but that is because of superstition, nothing else. By eating all sorts oflow and indigestible food, and by starving ourselves, wehave made ourselves incompetent to eat a good meal.Wehave listened to words of weakness from our childhood. Itis just the same with ghosts. You always here people saythey don t believe in ghosts, but, at the same time, veryfew do not get a little creepy sensation in the dark. It issimply superstition. So with all these things. This is theone idea that will come out of Yedanta, and the one ideathat deserves to live. These books may go or die to-morrow.Whether this idea first flashed into the brains of Hebrewsor of people living at the North Pole nobody cares. Butthis is truth and truth is eternal, and truth itselfteaches that it is not the special property of anybeing. Men and animals and gods are all commonrecipients of this one truth. Teach it to them. Why makelife miserable ?Why let people fall into all sorts of superstition ? I will give ten thousand lives if twenty of themNot only in this country,will give up their superstitions.but in the land of its very birth, if you tell people thisthey are frightened. They say that this is for Sannyasins,who give up the world nnd live in forests ;that is all right.