A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"""The""What"""""""HINDUISM AS A RELIGION. 49credit to our modern bacteriologists. In this wayit wenton and becam? a little slick and fat. Well, one day an-9ther frog that lived in the sea came and fell into the well.Where are you from ?"I am from the sea."sea : how big is that ? Is it as big as my well ?"and he took a leap from one side of the well to the other.My friend, says the frog of the sea, how do youcompare the sea with your little well ?Then the frog took another leap and asked, Is yoursea so big ?nonsense you speak, to compare the sea withyour well."Well, said thethen," frog of the well, nothingcan be bigger than my well there can be; nothing biggerthan this ;this fellow is a liar so turn him out."That has been the difficulty all the while.I am a Hindu. I am sitting in my own little welland thinking that the whole world is my little well. TheChristian sits in his littlewell and thinks the whole worldis his well. The Mohamedan sits in his little well andthinks that is the whole world. I have to thankyou of America for the great attempt you are makingto break down the barriers of this little world of ours, andhope that, in the future, the Lord will help youcomplish your purpose.FAREWELL.to acThe World s Parliament of Religions has become an accomplished fact, and the merciful Father has helped those-who laboured to bring it into existence, and crowned withsuccess their most unselfish labour.My thanks to those noble souls whose large hearts andlove of truth first dreamed this wonderful dream and then4