Continuing with the theme of Advaita

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Today we continue Swami Vivekananda's lecture called:

 

THE ATMAN

(Delivered in America)

 

 

These are the salient points of the three steps which Indian

religious thought has taken in regard to God. We have seen that it

began with the Personal, the extra-cosmic God. It went from the

external to the internal cosmic body, God immanent in the universe,

and ended in identifying the soul itself with that God, and making

one Soul, a unit of all these various manifestations in the universe.

This is the last word of the Vedas. It begins with dualism, goes

through a qualified monism and ends in perfect monism.

We know how very few in this world can come to the last, or even dare

believe in it, and fewer still dare act according to it. Yet we know

that therein lies the explanation of all ethics, of all morality and

all spirituality in the universe.