A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

says"Where""484 CHRIST, THE MESSENGER.7mean bythat?" That has been also told by your old"prophets Know : ye not that ye are gods ? *Mark the same three stages ;it is easier for you tobegin with v che first and end with the last.All these are there. But the Messenger had cometo show the path. It is not in forms that the * spiritis ;it is not in all sorts of vexations and knotty problemsof philosophy that you know^the spirit. Better you hadno learning ;better }r ou never read a book in your life.These are not at all necessary for salvation. Nor wealth,nor position, nor power ; no, not even learning ;but whatis necessary is that one "thing Blessed are the pure in:for the spiritin its own nature is pure. Howspirit,"else can it be ? It is of God ;it has come from Uod.In the kc^iage of the Bible, "It is the breath of God";in the language of the Koran, It is the soul of God."Do you mean to say that the Spirit of God can be impure,ever? But alas, it has been, as it were, covered overwith the dust and dirt of ages, our own work of goodand evil ;various works which were not correct, whichwere not true, have covered the same spirit with the dustand dirt and ignorance of ages. It is only required toclean away this dust and "dirt,and there it is ;it shinesimmediately. Blessed are the pure in spirit for theyshall see God for the Kingdom of Heaven is within."It is there.goest thou to seek for the Kingdomof God ?"you."Jesus af Nazareth. "It is there, insideCleanse the spirit,and it is there. It is alreadyyours.What is not yours, how can you getit ? It isyours by right ; yours. You are the heirs of immortality,sons of your Eternal Father.This is the great lesson of the Messenger. And theother great lesson, which is the basis of all religion, is