Recently I was studying Swami Vivekananda's speech in Chicago. This one is to those who create variance in people name of casts and religion. This story from Vivekananda for them
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I should tell you a story which would illustrate the cause of this variance. A
frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. It was born there and brought up there,
and yet was a little, small frog. Of course the evolutionists were not there then to tell us
whether the frog lost its eyes or not, but, for our story's sake, we must take it for granted that
it had its eyes, and that it every day cleansed the water of all the worms and bacilli that lived
in it with an energy that would do credit to our modern bacteriologists. In this way it went on
and became a little sleek and fat. Well, one day another frog that lived in the sea came and
fell into the well.
"Where are you from?"
"I am from the sea."
"The 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," said the frog of the sea, "how do you compare the sea with
your little well?"
Then the frog took another leap and asked, "Is your sea so big?"
"What nonsense you speak, to compare the sea with your well!"
"Well, then," said the frog of the well, "nothing can be bigger than my
well; there can be nothing bigger than 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 well and thinking that the whole world is my
little well. The Christian sits in his little well and thinks the whole world is his well. The
Mohammedan sits in his little well and thinks that is the whole world. I have to thank you of
America for the great attempt you are making to break down the barriers of this little
world of ours, and hope that, in the future, the Lord will help you to accomplish your
purpose.
So those who thinks that their religions higher that others or their casts is higher should stay in their well. No Religion is greater than Humanity .
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I should tell you a story which would illustrate the cause of this variance. A
frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. It was born there and brought up there,
and yet was a little, small frog. Of course the evolutionists were not there then to tell us
whether the frog lost its eyes or not, but, for our story's sake, we must take it for granted that
it had its eyes, and that it every day cleansed the water of all the worms and bacilli that lived
in it with an energy that would do credit to our modern bacteriologists. In this way it went on
and became a little sleek and fat. Well, one day another frog that lived in the sea came and
fell into the well.
"Where are you from?"
"I am from the sea."
"The 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," said the frog of the sea, "how do you compare the sea with
your little well?"
Then the frog took another leap and asked, "Is your sea so big?"
"What nonsense you speak, to compare the sea with your well!"
"Well, then," said the frog of the well, "nothing can be bigger than my
well; there can be nothing bigger than 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 well and thinking that the whole world is my
little well. The Christian sits in his little well and thinks the whole world is his well. The
Mohammedan sits in his little well and thinks that is the whole world. I have to thank you of
America for the great attempt you are making to break down the barriers of this little
world of ours, and hope that, in the future, the Lord will help you to accomplish your
purpose.
So those who thinks that their religions higher that others or their casts is higher should stay in their well. No Religion is greater than Humanity .
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