Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.
To hold to the books and at the same time open the way to freedom is Shankara's great achievement.
But after all, it is a kind of hair-splitting. Give man first the concrete, then raise him to the highest by slow degrees. This is the effort of the various religions and explains their existence and why each is suited to some stage of development.
The very books are a part of the ignorance they help to dispel. Their duty is to drive out the ignorance that has come upon knowledge.
"Truth shall drive out untruth." You are free and cannot be made so.
So long as you have a creed, you have no God.
"He who knows he knows, knows nothing." Who can know the Knower? There are two eternal facts in existence, God and the universe, the former unchangeable, the latter changeable. The world exists eternally.
Where your mind cannot grasp the amount of change, you call it eternally. . . .
You see the stone or the bas-relief on it, but not both at once; yet both are one.
- Swami Vivekananda
To hold to the books and at the same time open the way to freedom is Shankara's great achievement.
But after all, it is a kind of hair-splitting. Give man first the concrete, then raise him to the highest by slow degrees. This is the effort of the various religions and explains their existence and why each is suited to some stage of development.
The very books are a part of the ignorance they help to dispel. Their duty is to drive out the ignorance that has come upon knowledge.
"Truth shall drive out untruth." You are free and cannot be made so.
So long as you have a creed, you have no God.
"He who knows he knows, knows nothing." Who can know the Knower? There are two eternal facts in existence, God and the universe, the former unchangeable, the latter changeable. The world exists eternally.
Where your mind cannot grasp the amount of change, you call it eternally. . . .
You see the stone or the bas-relief on it, but not both at once; yet both are one.
- Swami Vivekananda
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