Karma Yoga

Author(s): Swami Vivekanand
Publisher: Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture Culcutta

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their fathers were. It is not known that their fathers ever spoke a word for the good of man. kind. millions and millions of carpenters like Joseph have gone; millions are still living. Millions and millions of petty kings like Buddha's father have been in the world. If it is only a case of hereditary transmission, how do you account for this little pretty prince, who was not, perhaps, obeyed by his own servants, producting this son, whom half a world worships? How do you account for this gap between the carpenter, and his son, whom millions of human beings worship as God? It cannot be accounted for by that theory of heredity. This gigantic will which Buddha, threw over the world, which rose out of Jesuş, whence did it come? Whence came this accumulation of power? It must have been there through ages and ages, continually growing bigger and bigger, until it burst on society in a Buddha or a Jesus; and its influence has gone on rolling down even to the present day.