The meditative state is called always the highest state by the Yogi, when it is neither a passive nor an active state;
in it you approach nearest to the Purusha.
The soul has neither pleasure nor pain; it is the witness of everything, the eternal witness of all work, but it takes no fruits from any work.
As the sun is the cause of sight of every eye, but is not itself affected by any defects in the eye or as when a crystal has red or blue flowers placed before it, the crystal looks red or blue, and yet it is neither;
so, the soul is neither passive nor active, it is beyond both.
The nearest way of expressing this state of the soul is that it is meditation.
This is Sankhya philosophy.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Talk in New York
in it you approach nearest to the Purusha.
The soul has neither pleasure nor pain; it is the witness of everything, the eternal witness of all work, but it takes no fruits from any work.
As the sun is the cause of sight of every eye, but is not itself affected by any defects in the eye or as when a crystal has red or blue flowers placed before it, the crystal looks red or blue, and yet it is neither;
so, the soul is neither passive nor active, it is beyond both.
The nearest way of expressing this state of the soul is that it is meditation.
This is Sankhya philosophy.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Talk in New York
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