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The modern scientific man will tell you that you can only get the

amount of energy out of a machine which you have previously put into

it. Something cannot be produced out of nothing. If a man is an

evolution of the mollusc, then the perfect man-the Buddha-man, the

Christ-man-was involved in the mollusc. If it is not so, whence come

these gigantic personalities ? Something cannot come out of nothing.

Thus we are in the position of reconciling the scriptures with modern

light. That energy which manifests itself slowly through various

stages until it becomes the perfect man, cannot come out of nothing.

It existed somewhere; and if the mollusc or the protoplasm is the

first point to which you can trace it, that protoplasm, somehow or

other, must have contained the energy.

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Today we continue Swamiji's lecture called:

 

The Real Nature of Man.

(Delivered in London)

 

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Vivekananda. All lectures are sent out in sequenced form, as he spoke

them.

 

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