Vivekananda on the Vedas (part 213)

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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON THE VEDAS AND UPANISHADS

By Sister Gayatriprana

part 213

We see we must first find the universe which includes all universes; we must

find something which, by itself, must be the material running through all these

various planes of existence, whether we apprehend it through the senses or not.

If we could possibly find something which we could know as the common property

of the lower as well as of the higher worlds, then our problem would be solved.

Even if by the sheer force of logic alone we could understand that there must be

one basis of all existence, then our problem might approach some sort of

solution; but this solution certainly cannot be obtained only through the world

we see and know, because it is only a partial view of the whole.

 

Our only hope, then, lies in penetrating deeper. The early [indo-Aryan] thinkers

discovered that the farther they were from the center, the more marked were the

variations and differentiations; and that the nearer they approached the center,

the nearer they were to Unity. (37)