To the Semitic, this life is an outpost where we are posted to test our fidelity; to the Aryan this life is on the way to our goal.
To the Semitic, if we do our duty well, we shall have an ever-joyful home in heaven. To the Aryan, that home is God Himself.
To the Semitic, serving God is a means to an end, namely, the pay, which is joy and enjoyment. To the Aryan, enjoyment, misery -- everything -- is a means, and the end is God.
The Semitic worships God to go to heaven. The Aryan rejects heaven to go to God.
In short, this is the main difference.
- Swami Vivekananda,
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To the Semitic, if we do our duty well, we shall have an ever-joyful home in heaven. To the Aryan, that home is God Himself.
To the Semitic, serving God is a means to an end, namely, the pay, which is joy and enjoyment. To the Aryan, enjoyment, misery -- everything -- is a means, and the end is God.
The Semitic worships God to go to heaven. The Aryan rejects heaven to go to God.
In short, this is the main difference.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Answer to a Question in US
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