#072, Any fool can do that
Swami Vivekananda spoke at Washington Hall, Sanfrancisco, on March 16, 1900. External purity is very easy and all the world rushes towards [it]. If a certain kind of dress is the kind of morality [to be observed], any fool can do that. When it is grappling with the mind itself, it is hard work. The people who do external, superficial things are so self-righteous! I remember, when I was a boy I had great regard for the character of Jesus Christ. [Then I read about the wedding feast in the Bible.] I closed the book and said, "He ate meat and drank wine! He cannot be a good man." BLOGGER'S VIEWS *Eat meat and weep for God. Weeping with a meat-filled belly is a qualification for seeing God! *As far as kindness to animals is concerned, Jesus should get a zero. In other things he may be a saint. *What a justification of a monk's eating meat and drinking alcohol? *Didn't he wear ochre-robes, a big turban? Didn't he prefix "Swami" and suffix 'a...