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Earlier postings can be seen at http://www.vivekananda.btinternet.co.uk/veda.htm

 

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON THE VEDAS AND UPANISHADS

By Sister Gayatriprana

part 211

3. The Grand Idea of the Spiritual Oneness of the Whole Universe Will Save the

Masses of the West from the Hideous Abyss of Materialism

 

There is a mass of thought which is at the present time struggling to get

expression. This new thought is telling us to give up our dreams of Dualism, of

a good and evil in essence, and the still wilder dream of suppression. It

teaches us that higher direction and not destruction is the law. It teaches us

that it is not a world of bad and good, but good and better - and still better.

It stops short of nothing but acceptance. It teaches that no situation is

hopeless and, as such, accepts every form of mental, moral or spiritual thought

where it already stands; and without a word of condemnation tells it that so far

is has done good, now is the time to do better. What in olden times was thought

of as the elimination of bad, it teaches as the transfiguration of evil and the

doing of better. Above all, it teaches that the kingdom of heaven is already in

existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in human beings if they

will see it. (32)

 

The great idea that the world wants from India today - the thinking parts of

Europe, nay, the whole world (more, perhaps the lower classes than the higher,

more the masses than the cultured, more the ignorant than the educated, more the

weak than the strong) - is that eternal, grand idea of the spiritual oneness of

the whole universe…. The modern researches of the West have demonstrated through

physical means the oneness and the solidarity of the whole universe;….

physically speaking, you and I, the sun, the moon and the stars are but little

waves or wavelets in the midst of an infinite ocean of matter, the samashti;

and,… going one step further, it is also shown in the Vedanta that behind that

idea of the unity of the whole show, the real Soul is one. There is but one Soul

throughout the universe, all is but one Existence. (33)

 

Millions in every civilized land are waiting for the message that will save them

from the hideous abyss of materialism into which the modern money-worship is

driving them headlong, and many of the leaders of the new social movements have

already discovered that Vedanta in its highest form can alone spiritualize their

social aspirations. (34)

 

 

 

 

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