Thursday, May 24, 2018

Personal Preserved in Impersonal

Often the doubt comes to us that if we arrive at the idea of the Impersonal God, the personal will be destroyed, 
if we arrive at the idea of the Impersonal man, 
the personal will be lost. 
But the Vedantic idea is not the destruction of the individual, but its real preservation. 

We cannot prove the individual by any other means but by referring to the universal, by proving that this individual is really the universal. If we think of the individual as separate from everything else in the universe, it cannot stand a minute. 
Such a thing never existed. 

        - Swami Vivekananda, 
          Practical Vedanta III, London


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