PDF - Swami Vivekananda

Religion of The Twentieth Centurybe adirect revelation of God, has just as muchargument for such a claim as the others have.If we accept one Scripture as the revealedWord of God, we shall have to accept all theScriptures of the world. We cannot reject any.If, for instance, we accept the Christian Bibleasthe revealed Word of God, we shall have toaccept the Vedas, the Koran, the Zend-Avesta,because the reason and arguments given ineach case are exactly the same. Furthermore,comparative study of the various religions ofthe world has taught us a great lesson that noreligion whether great or small ever had asupernatural origin, but that every religion, onthe contrary, is the natural result of theattempts of the human mind to grasp the truthsand to explain the mysteries of the phenomenaluniverse.The comparative mythology has shown thatmythical elements exist in the ChristianScriptures just as much as among the non-Christian Bibles of the world. Some myths2 17