I must here tell you that some of our best psychologists do not believe in God in the sense in which you believe in Him.
The father of our psychology, Kapila, denies the existence of God. His idea is that a Personal God is quite unnecessary; nature itself is sufficient to work out the whole of creation.
What is called the Design Theory, he knocked on the head, and said that a more childish theory was never advanced.
But he admits a peculiar kind of God. He says we are all struggling to get free; and when we become free, we can, as it were, melt away into nature, only to come out at the beginning of the next cycle and be its ruler.
We come out omniscient and omnipotent beings. In that sense we can be called Gods: you and I and the humblest beings can be Gods in different cycles. He says such a God will be temporal; but an eternal God, eternally omnipotent and ruler of the universe, cannot be.
- Swami Vivekananda, Talk in New York
The father of our psychology, Kapila, denies the existence of God. His idea is that a Personal God is quite unnecessary; nature itself is sufficient to work out the whole of creation.
What is called the Design Theory, he knocked on the head, and said that a more childish theory was never advanced.
But he admits a peculiar kind of God. He says we are all struggling to get free; and when we become free, we can, as it were, melt away into nature, only to come out at the beginning of the next cycle and be its ruler.
We come out omniscient and omnipotent beings. In that sense we can be called Gods: you and I and the humblest beings can be Gods in different cycles. He says such a God will be temporal; but an eternal God, eternally omnipotent and ruler of the universe, cannot be.
- Swami Vivekananda, Talk in New York
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