The rational West is earnestly bent upon seeking out the rationality, the raison d'être of all its philosophy and its ethics; and you all know well that ethics cannot be derived from the mere sanction of any personage, however great and divine he may have been. … …
... where is that eternal sanction to be found except in the only Infinite Reality that exists in you and in me and in all, in the Self, in the Soul?
The infinite oneness of the Soul is the eternal sanction of all morality, that you and I are not only brothers -- every literature voicing man's struggle towards freedom has preached that for you -- but that you and I are really one.
This is the dictate of Indian philosophy.
This oneness is the rationale of all ethics and all spirituality.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Kumbakonam,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
... where is that eternal sanction to be found except in the only Infinite Reality that exists in you and in me and in all, in the Self, in the Soul?
The infinite oneness of the Soul is the eternal sanction of all morality, that you and I are not only brothers -- every literature voicing man's struggle towards freedom has preached that for you -- but that you and I are really one.
This is the dictate of Indian philosophy.
This oneness is the rationale of all ethics and all spirituality.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Kumbakonam,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
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