A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

72 SW AMI S REPLY TO THE ADDRESSES.he has inherited, and apply it to his needs. And that hehas begun to do, and will do more and morg. Is this notthe real cause of this revival ? v ,Young men of Bengal to you I especially appeal.Brethren : We know to our shame that most of thereal evils for which the foreign races abuse the Hindunation are only owing to us. We have been the cause ofbringing many undeserved calumnies on the head of theother races in India. But glory unto God, we have beenfully awakened to it, and with His blessings, we will notonly cleanse ourselves but help the whole of India toattain the ideals preached in the religion eternal.Let us wipeoff first that mark which nature alwaysputs on the forehead of a slave the stain of jealousy.Be jealous of none. Be ready to lend a hand to everyworker of good.Send a good thought for every beingworlds.in the threeLet us take our stand on the one central truth inour religion the common heritage of the Hindus, theBuddhists and the Jains alike the spirit of man, the Atmanof man, the immortal, birthless, all-prevading, eternal soulof man, whose glories the Vedas cannot themselves express ;before whose majesty the universe with its galaxy upongalaxy of suns and stars and nebulae is as a drop. Everyman or woman, nay from the highest Devas to the wormthat crawls under your feet is such a spirit evolutedor involuted. The difference is not in kind, but indegree.This infinite power of the spirit brought tobear uponmatter evolves material development, made to act uponthought evolves intellectuality, and made to act uponitself makes of man a god.