By Vish Writer / Swami Vivekananda
When I was a boy, this skepticism reached me,and it seemed for a time as if I must give up all hope of religion. But fortunately for me I studied the Christian religion,the Mohammedan,the Buddhistic,and others, and what was my surprise to find that the same foundation principles taught by my religion were also taught by all religions. It appealed to me this way. What is the truth? I asked. Is this world true? Yes. Why? Because I see it. Are the beautiful sounds we just heard (the vocal and instrumental music) true? Yes.
Because we heard them. We know that man has a body, eyes, and ears,and he has a spiritual nature which we cannot see. And with his spiritual faculties he can study these different religions and find that whether a religion is taught in the forests and jungles of India or in a Christian land,in essentials all religions are one.This only shows us that religion is a constitutional necessity of the human mind. The proof of one religion depends on the proof of all the rest.
For instance,if I have six fingers, and no one else has,you may well say that is abnormal. The same reasoning may be applied to the argument that only one religion is true and all others false. One religion only, like one set of six fingers in the world,would be unnatural. We see,therefore,that if one religion is true, all others must be true. There are differences in non -essentials, but in essentials they are all one. If my five fingers are true, they prove that your five fingers are true too. Wherever man is, he must develop a belief, he must develop his religious nature.
And another fact I find in the study of the various religions of the world is that there are three different stages of ideas with regard to the soul and God.
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