… all knowledge is divided into two classes, the Apara, secular, and the Para, spiritual.
One pertains to perishable things, and the other to the realm of the spirit. … …
It is not that secular and spiritual knowledge are two opposite and contradictory things; but they are the same thing -- the same infinite knowledge which is everywhere fully present from the lowest atom to the highest Brahman -- they are the same knowledge in its different stages of gradual development.
This one infinite knowledge we call secular when it is in its lower process of manifestation, and spiritual when it reaches the corresponding higher phase.
- Swami Vivekananda,
an article written for Udbodhan
One pertains to perishable things, and the other to the realm of the spirit. … …
It is not that secular and spiritual knowledge are two opposite and contradictory things; but they are the same thing -- the same infinite knowledge which is everywhere fully present from the lowest atom to the highest Brahman -- they are the same knowledge in its different stages of gradual development.
This one infinite knowledge we call secular when it is in its lower process of manifestation, and spiritual when it reaches the corresponding higher phase.
- Swami Vivekananda,
an article written for Udbodhan
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