Guest guest Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Teachings of Swami Vivekananda Notwithstanding the differences and controversies existing among our various sects, there are in them too, several grounds of unity. First, almost all of them admit the existence of three things - three entities - Ishvara, Atman and the Jagat. Ishvara is He who is eternally creating, preserving and destroying the whole universe. Excepting the Sankhyas, all others believe in this. Then the doctrine of the Atman, and the reincarnation of the soul; it maintains that innumerable individual souls having taken body after body again and again, go round and round in the wheel of birth and death according to their respective Karmas; this is Samsaravada or . . . the doctrine of rebirth. Then there is this Jagat or universe without beginning and without end. Though some hold these three as different phases of one only, and some others as three distinctly different entities, and others again in various other ways, yet they are all unanimous in believing in these three. (III. 458-59) Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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