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| Swami Vivekananda |
I
shall tell you a story which I heard from a great scholar in the West. … A girl
was brought forward and seated cross-legged upon a stool made of sticks
crossed. After she had been seated for a time, the show-man began to take out,
one after another, these cross-bars; and when all were taken out, the girl was
left floating in the air. The Governor thought there was some trick, so he drew
his sword and violently passed it under the girl; nothing was there.
Now, what was this? It was not magic
or something extraordinary. That is the peculiarity. No one in India would tell
you that things like this do not exist. To the Hindu it is a matter of course.
You know what the Hindus would often say when they have to fight their enemies
— "Oh, one of our Yogis will come and drive the whole lot out!" It is
the extreme belief of the race. What power is there in the hand or the sword?
The power is all in the spirit.
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