The truth about it is that no one has created you -- you have created yourself.
This is discrimination, this is Vedanta.
But one does not understand it before realisation. Therefore the aspirant should begin with the dualistic standpoint, that the Lord is causing the good actions, while he is doing the evil.
This is the easiest way to the purification of the mind.
Hence you find dualism so strong among the Vaishnavas. It is very difficult to entertain Advaitic (non-dualistic) ideas at the outset. But the dualistic standpoint gradually leads to the realisation of the Advaita.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Conversations and Dialogues,
recorded by Priya Nath Sinha
This is discrimination, this is Vedanta.
But one does not understand it before realisation. Therefore the aspirant should begin with the dualistic standpoint, that the Lord is causing the good actions, while he is doing the evil.
This is the easiest way to the purification of the mind.
Hence you find dualism so strong among the Vaishnavas. It is very difficult to entertain Advaitic (non-dualistic) ideas at the outset. But the dualistic standpoint gradually leads to the realisation of the Advaita.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Conversations and Dialogues,
recorded by Priya Nath Sinha
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