According to the Advaita philosophy, then, this differentiation of matter, these phenomena, are, as it were, for a time, hiding the real nature of man; but the latter really has not been changed at all.
In the lowest worm, as well as in the highest human being, the same divine nature is present.
The worm form is the lower form in which the divinity has been more overshadowed by Maya; that is the highest form in which it has been least overshadowed.
Behind everything the same divinity is existing, and out of this comes the basis of morality.
Do not injure another. Love everyone as your own self, because the whole universe is one.
In injuring another, I am injuring myself; in loving another,
I am loving myself.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address to Graduate Philosophical Society,
Harvard University
In the lowest worm, as well as in the highest human being, the same divine nature is present.
The worm form is the lower form in which the divinity has been more overshadowed by Maya; that is the highest form in which it has been least overshadowed.
Behind everything the same divinity is existing, and out of this comes the basis of morality.
Do not injure another. Love everyone as your own self, because the whole universe is one.
In injuring another, I am injuring myself; in loving another,
I am loving myself.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address to Graduate Philosophical Society,
Harvard University
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