What Religion Is by Swami Vivekanand
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at the beginning of the century, it was almost fear that religion wasn't end under the tremendous sledge hammer blows of scientific research. All superstitions were crumbling away. Like masses of Purcell Lane, those to whom religion meant only a bundle of creeds and meaningless ceremonials. We're at the wits end. For a time, it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. Many thought the case hopeless and the cause of religion lost once and forever. But the tide has turned, and to the rescue has come. What the study of competitive religions by the study of different religions. We find that, in essence, they are all one. The proof of one religion depends on the proof of one and rest. For instance, if I have six fingers and no one else has, you may well say that it is abnormal. The same reasoning may be applied to the argument that only one religion is true and all others falls. 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, the proof that your five fingers are true to I find in the study of various religions of the world that there are three different stages of ideas with regard to the soul and God in the first place. All religions admit that apart from the body which perishes, there is a certain part or something which does not change like the body apart that is immutable, eternal and never dies. We, the essential part of us, never had a beginning and we'll never have an end. And about us all about this eternal nature, there is another eternal being without end God.