Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Principle of Generalisation

We have to come to an ultimate generalisation, which not only will be the most universal of all generalisations, but out of which everything else must come. 

It will be of the same nature as the lowest effect; the cause, the highest, the ultimate, the primal cause, must be the same as the lowest and most distant of its effects, a series of evolutions. 

The Brahman of the Vedanta fulfils that condition, because Brahman is the last generalisation to which we can come. It has no attributes but is Existence, Knowledge, and Bliss -- Absolute. Existence, we have seen, is the very ultimate generalisation which the human mind can come to.

Swami Vivekananda, Lecture in England



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