Swami Vivekananda's Lecture on Jesus Christ delivered in San Francisco, California on March 11, 1900. Original Title ' CHRIST'S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD' is changed to give an idea of the Notes of the Lecture.
Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves — art, literature, science, religion.
Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves — art, literature, science, religion.
Great waves succeed each other, and between these great waves is a
quiet, a calm, a period of rest, a period of recuperation.
All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which
to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or
awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life
— in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each
other in an endless chain of progression.
Religion, like everything else, progresses in waves; and at the summit
of each great wave stands an illumined soul, a mighty spiritual leader and
teacher of men. Such a one was Jesus of Nazareth.
SOURCE: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume-9,
Notes of Lectures and Classes, P-271
Notes of Lectures and Classes, P-271
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