Jnâna Yoga, Part II: Seven LecturesVivekananda, Swami
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Jnâna Yoga, Part II: Seven Lectures
Vivekananda, Swami
Vedanta; Yoga, Jñana
must still be infinity, for it cannot be separated from itself. Suppose
there is an infinite ocean of water, could you take up one drop from
there? If you could, that ocean would no longer be infinite, that drop
would limit it. The infinite cannot be divided by any means.
But there are stronger proofs that the Self is One. Not only so, but
that the whole universe is one. We will once more take up our “X”
and “Y”. We have shown how what we call the external world is “X”
plus mind, and the internal world “Y” plus mind. “X” and “Y” are both
unknown quantities, unknown and unknowable. What is the mind? The
mind is the “time, space and causation.” This idea is the nature of
the mind. You can never think without time, you can never conceive of
anything without space, and you can never imagine anything without
causation. These three are the forms in which both “X” and “Y” are
caught, and which become the mind. Beyond that there is nothing to
the mind. Take off these three forms which of themselves do not
exist,--what remains? It is all one; “X” and “Y” are one. It is only
this mind, this form, that has limited them apparently, and made them
differ as internal and external world. “X” and “Y” are both unknown and
unknowable. We cannot attribute any quality to them. As such they are
both the same. That which is qualitiless and attributeless and absolute
must be one. There cannot be two absolutes. When there are no qualities
there can be only One. “X” and “Y” are both without qualities because
they take qualities only in the mind, therefore this “X” and “Y” are
one.
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