MOHAMMED : Part-4.
Part-4.
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)
C.
Their temples are like Protestant churches. ...
no music,
no paintings,
no pictures.
A pulpit in the corner; on that lies the Koran.
The people all stand in line.
No priest,
no person,
no bishop. ...
The man who prays must stand at the side of the audience.
Some parts are beautiful. ...
D.
These old people were all messengers of God.
I fall down and worship them; I take the dust of their feet.
But they are dead! ...
And we are alive.
We must go ahead! ...
Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed.
Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine.
Be not an imitation of Jesus, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else.
If we are not ... we must struggle and be.
I would not be exactly like Jesus.
It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew. ...
Swami Vivekananda
To be continued ...
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