MOHAMMED : Part-2..

This article was recorded by Ida Ansell in shorthand. As, however, Swamiji's speed was too great for her in her early days, dots are put in the articles to indicate the omissions, while the words within square brackets are added by way of linking up the disconnected parts.


(Delivered on March 25, 1900, in the San Francisco Bay Area)


Part-2.

God is God.

There is no philosophy, no complicated code of ethics.

"Our God is one without a second, and Mohammed is the Prophet." ...

Mohammed began to preach it in the streets of Mecca. ...

They began to persecute him, and he fled into the city of [Medina].

He began to fight, and the whole race became united.

[Mohammedanism] deluged the world in the name of the Lord.

The tremendous conquering power! ...


You ... people have very hard ideas and are so superstitious and prejudiced!

These messengers must have come from God, else how could they have been so great?

You look at every defect.

Each one of us has his defects.

Who hasn't?

I can point out many defects in the Jews.

The wicked are always looking for defects. ...

Flies come and seek for the [ulcer], and bees come only for the honey in the flower.

Do not follow the way of the fly but that of the bee....


Mohammed married quite a number of wives afterwards.

Great men may marry two hundred wives each.

"Giants" like you, I would not allow to marry one wife.

The characters of the great souls are mysterious, their methods past our finding out.

We must not judge them.

Christ may judge Mohammed.

Who are you and I?

Little babies.

 What do we understand of these great souls? ...

Swami Vivekananda
To be continued  ...