The Path To Human Glory

Will the knowledge of God help me become rich, or help me find a great partner or bless me with wonderful health?

Answered by Swami Vivekananda:

What good can knowledge of God do? Can it take away the poverty of the poor and give them more clothes? Supposing it cannot would that prove the untruth of religion ? Suppose a baby stands up among you, when you are trying to demonstrate an astronomical theory, and says” Does it bring gingerbread” “No it does not” you answer. “Then, ” says the baby, “it is useless.” Babies judge the whole universe from their own standpoint, that of producing gingerbread and so do the babies of the world.

We must not judge the higher things from this low standpoint of ours. Everything must be judged by its own standard and the infinite must be judged by the standard of infinity. Knowledge of God permeates the whole of man’s life, not only the present, but the past, present and future. It is therefore the eternal relation between the Eternal soul and the eternal God. Is it logical to measure its value by its action upon five minutes of human life? Certainly not. But these are all negative arguments.

Can knowledge of God help me to become rich? Can it solve my day to day problems? Can it bless me with wonderful health? It is always doing so and it does infinitely more than that it brings to man eternal life. It has made man what he is and will make of this human animal a God. It is absurd to suppose that sense happiness is the goal of humanity we find as a conclusion that knowledge is the goal of all life. I have tried to show to you that in those thousands of years of struggle for the search of truth and the benefit of mankind, we have scarcely made the least appreciable advance. But mankind has made gigantic advancement in knowledge. The highest utility of this progress lies not in the creature comforts that it brings, but in manufacturing a god out of this animal man.

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Praise for Swami Vivekananda
I cannot touch these sayings of his… without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports must have been produced when in burning words they were issued from the lips of the hero

Romain Rolland,Nobel Prize Winner in Literature: 1915
To ask you , Swami, for credentials is like asking the sun to state its right to shine. You are more learned than all our learned professors put together.

J.H.Wright, Professor , Harvard University

He is undoubtedly the greatest figure in the Parliament of Religions. After hearing from him we feel how foolish it is to send missionaries to this learned nation.

The New York Herald

Vivekananda’s address before the Parliament was broad as the heaven above us….. If he merely crosses the platform he is applauded… At the Parliament of Religions they used to keep Vivekananda until the end of the programme to make people stay till the end of the session….. The four thousand fanning people in the Hall of Columbus would sit smiling and expectant waiting for an hour or two to listen to Vivekananda for fifteen minutes. The Chairman knew the old rule of keeping the best until the last.

Boston Evening Transcript