A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

""""CHRIST, THE MESSENGER. 481dreams tljat you are low and that you are poor. Thinknot, as slaves, that you are tyrannized over and trampled,for, within you is something that can never be tyrannizedover, never be trampled, never be troubled, n*ver be killed.*Thou art the Son of God ;man immortal ;a spirit."^jcl-ftow, he declared, the kingdom of Heaven is within thee." "I tand my Father are Dare one."you standand say that ? Not only, I am the son of God but";if I &m pure Enough, I will also find in the heart of myheart, I and my Father are one ". That was what Jesusof Nazareth said. He never talks of this world and of thislife. Nothing to do with it ; except that he wants to gethold of the world as it is, give it a push and drive it forw&d,and onward,till the whole world has reached untothe effulgent Light of God ;til?everyone hishas_j?ealizedspiritual nature, death is vanquished and miseryis banished.We know the different stories that have been writtenabout Him. We know the scholars and their writings, weknow the higher criticism ;we know all that has been doneby study, and all that ;we are not here to discuss howmuch of the New Testament is true ;we are not here todiscuss how much of that life is historical. It does notmatter at all whether the New, Testament was ever writtenwithin five hundred years of this event ;no ;it doesn tmatter,even how much of that life is true. But there issomething behind. Even to imitate, we want somethingto imitate. To tell a lie, you have to imitate a truth andthat truth is a fact. You cannot imitate that which neverexisted. You cannot imitate that which you never perceived, can you ?But there must have been a nucleus ;a tremendouspower that came down, a marvellous manifestation ofpower ;and of that we are speaking. So, therefore, we31