VIVEKANANDA ANSWERS “THE ZAKIR NAYAKS” IN A NUT SHELL

DIVINITY IS NOT AN INTELLECTUAL AFFAIR, IT IS TO BE EXPERIENCED IN VEINS AND SPIRIT

In studying books, we are sometimes deluded into thinking that thereby we are being spiritually helped, but if we analyze ourselves, we shall find that only our intellect has been helped and not the spirit.

Religion can only be realised.Untill you have attained realisation, there is no difference between you and atheists.

Hinduism is BEING AND BECOMING and not HEARING OR ACKNOWLEDGING.

Let everybody work out his own vision of this universe, according to his own ideas. Injure none, deny the position of none. You can lend him a helping hand and put him on higher Platforms, but do not destroy him. All will come to truth in the long run.

GOD IS ONE. SAGES CALL HIM BY VARIOUS NAMES:

(ekam sat vipraa bahudha vadanti)

May the God who is the creator, the preserver and the protector of our race and the

Protector of our forefathers, whether called by the name of Vishnu, or Shiva, or Shakti, whether He is worshipped as a FORM (idol) or FORMLESS, personal or impersonal-enter us.

VEDANTA DOES NOT BELIEVE IN A SACRED BOOK                

Vedanta does not believe in a book. It denies the authority of any book over any other book. It denies emphatically that any one book can contain all the truths about God.

A MAN IS NO MORE WORTHY OF WORSHIP

A man is no more worthy of worship than a bird or a worm. I am exactly the same as the lowest worm. There is little room in Vedanta to worship a man-the man dragging us on and we being saved by him. Vedanta does not give you that. No book. No man to worship.

THE VEDIC GOD

Vedic God is not the monarch sitting on a throne. There are people who like their God that way-a God to be feared and propitiated. They want a King to rule them. They believe in a king in a heaven to rule them all.

THE GOD WHO SITS ABOVE THE CLOUD IS NOT THE GOD OF HINDUS

The god sitting up on a cloud is utter blasphemy and downright materialism. When babies think this way (God sitting in the cloud) it may be all right, but grown up man try to teach such things, it is downright disgusting. The sitting God is all matter, all body idea, the gross idea, the sense idea. Vedic God is spirit and He should be worshipped in spirit and in truth.

KNOWLEDGE OF GOD IS NOT CREATED

All knowledge is Vedha.Vedha is infinite like God. Nobody ever creates knowledge, it is only discovered. God exist in us and we discover Him. Vedha (Knowledge) is realizing the God-consciousness which is already in us.

SHOUTING THE SUPERFICIAL

There are many people who can talk and preach and make noise, but nothing superficial can bring us satisfaction. It is by living quietly and earnestly that we evolve true spiritual insight which enables us to find our intrinsic value.

SHANAKARACHARYA CONCLUDES THUS

Loud speech profusion of words and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.