A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"Come"and""480 CHRIST, THE MESSENGER.and the beasts have their lairs, but the son o. Man hath-(nowhere to lay down his head."uBut you cannot do that. Confess and be quiet ;butdon t try to torture texts.That, he says, is the only way to salvation ;he laysdown no other.Let us confess in sackcloth and ashes that we cannot"do that. P We still have fondness for me and mine."We want property, money, wealth. Woe unto us ! Letus confess, and do not put to shame that great Teacherof !Humanity He had no family ties. But do you thinkthat that man had any physical ideas in him Do ? youthink that this mass of light, this god and not-man, camedown to be the brother of animals? And yet, tkieymake hin^ Breach all sorts, even low sexual things.He had none ! He was a soul !Nothing but a soul, justworking, as it were, a body, for the good of humanity,and that was all his relation to the body. Oh ! not that.In the soul there is neither man nor woman. No, no !The disembodied soul has no relationship to the animal, norelationship to the body. The ideal may be high : alwaysbeyond us. Never mind : it is the ideal. Let us confessit is so ;but we cannot approach it yet.There he was. No other occupation in life ;no otherthought except that one, that he was a Spirit. He wasa disembodied, unfettered, unbound spirit.And not onlyso, but he, with his marvellous vision, had found that everyman and woman whether of Jew or of Gentile, whetherhe was a rich man or poor man, whether a saint or sinner,was the embodiment of such an undying Spirit as was hisown. And, therefore, the one work his whole life showedwas calling upon them to realize their own spiritual nature.up,"he says,give up these low and vile-