Vedanta and modern science both posit a self-evolving Cause.
In Itself are all the causes.
Take for example the potter shaping a pot.
The potter is the primal cause, the clay the material cause, and the wheel the instrumental cause; but the Atman is all three.
Atman is cause and manifestation too.
The Vedantist says the universe is not real, it is only apparent. Nature is God seen through nescience.
The Pantheists say, God has become nature or this world;
the Advaitists affirm that God is appearing as this world,
but He is not this world.
In Itself are all the causes.
Take for example the potter shaping a pot.
The potter is the primal cause, the clay the material cause, and the wheel the instrumental cause; but the Atman is all three.
Atman is cause and manifestation too.
The Vedantist says the universe is not real, it is only apparent. Nature is God seen through nescience.
The Pantheists say, God has become nature or this world;
the Advaitists affirm that God is appearing as this world,
but He is not this world.
- Swami Vivekananda
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