| Buddhism is a great religion in some respects,but to | | | | "Whom they call Indra, Mitra, Varuna -- that which |
| confuse Buddhism with Vedanta is without meaning; | | | | exists is One; sages call It by various names." It was |
| anyone may mark just the difference that exists | | | | written, nobody knows at what date,it may be 8,000 |
| between Christianity and the Salvation Army. There | | | | years ago,in spite of all modern scholars may say, it |
| are great and good points in Buddhism,but these | | | | may be 9,000 years ago. Not one of these religious |
| great points fell into hands which were not able to | | | | speculations is of modern date, but they are as fresh |
| keep them safe. The jewels which came from | | | | today as they were when they were written, or |
| philosophers fell into the hands of mobs, and the | | | | rather, fresher, for at that distant date man was not |
| mobs took up their ideas. They had a great deal of | | | | so civilized as we know him now. He had not learnt |
| enthusiasm, some marvelous ideas, great and | | | | to cut his brother's throat because he differed a little |
| humanitarian ideas, but,after all, there is something | | | | in thought from himself; he had not deluged the |
| else that is necessary -- thought and intellect -- to | | | | world in blood, he did not become demon to his own |
| keep everything safe. Wherever you see the most | | | | brother. In the name of humanity he did not |
| humanitarian ideas fall into the hands of the | | | | massacre whole lots of mankind then. Therefore |
| multitude,the first result,you may notice, is | | | | these words come to us today very fresh,as great |
| degradation. It is learning and intellect that keep | | | | stimulating,life - giving words,much fresher than they |
| things sure. Now this Buddhism went as the first | | | | were when they were written: "That which exists is |
| missionary religion to the world, penetrated the whole | | | | One; sages call It by various names." We have to |
| of the civilized world as it existed at that time, and | | | | learn yet that all religions,under whatever name they |
| never was a drop of blood shed for that religion. We | | | | may be called, either Hindu, Buddhist, Mohammedan, |
| read how in China the Buddhist missionaries were | | | | or Christian, have the same God, and he who derides |
| persecuted, and thousands were massacred by two | | | | any one of these derides his own God. To read the |
| or three successive emperors, but after that, fortune | | | | rest of the story visit |
| favored the Buddhists,and one of the emperors | | | | Lecturer, entrepreneur and Fortune 500 business |
| offered to take vengeance of the persecutors, but | | | | consultant, Vish Writer is the author of the Amazon |
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| verse. That is why I want you to remember it: | | | | |