Guest guest Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 Teachings of Swami Vivekananda What you call matter, or spirit, or mind, or anything else you may like to call them, the fact remains the same, we cannot say that they are, we cannot say that they are not. This eternal play of light and darkness, indiscriminate, indistinguishable, inseparable, is always there. A fact, yet, at the same time, not a fact; awake, and at the same time, asleep. This is a statement of facts, and this is what is called Maya. We are born in this Maya, we live in it, we think in it, we dream in it. We are philosophers in it, we are spiritual men in it, nay, we are devils in this Maya, and we are gods in this Maya. Stretch your ideas as far as you can, make them higher and higher, call them infinite, or by any other name you please, even these ideas are within this Maya. It cannot be otherwise, and the whole of human knowledge is generalization of this Maya, trying to know it as it appears to be. This is the work of Nama Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea in your mind is within Maya, for everything that is bound by the laws of time, space and causation is within Maya. (II. 112) Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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