None can be Vedantists, and at the same time admit of
privilege to anyone, either mental, physical, or spiritual; absolutely no
privilege for anyone.
The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more,
the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.
Where is the claim to privilege?
Where is the claim to privilege?
All knowledge is in every soul, even in the most ignorant; he has
not manifested it, but, perhaps, he has not had the opportunity, the
environments were not, perhaps, suitable to him. When he gets the opportunity,
he will manifest it.
The idea that one man is born superior to another has no meaning in the Vedanta; that between two nations one is superior and the other inferior has no meaning whatsoever. Put them in the same circumstances, and see whether the same intelligence comes out or not. Before that you have no right to say that one nation is superior to another.
- Swami Vivekananda,
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