The vast mass of Indian people are dualists. Human nature ordinarily cannot conceive of anything higher.
We find that ninety per cent of the population of the earth who believe in any religion are dualists.
All the religions of Europe and Western Asia are dualistic; they have to be. The ordinary man cannot think of anything which is not concrete. He naturally likes to cling to that which his intellect can grasp. That is to say, he can only conceive of higher spiritual ideas by bringing them down to his own level. He can only grasp abstract thoughts by making them concrete.
This is the religion of the masses all over the world. They believe in a God who is entirely separate from them, a great king, a high, mighty monarch, as it were.
- Swami Vivekananda, Jnana-Yoga, US
We find that ninety per cent of the population of the earth who believe in any religion are dualists.
All the religions of Europe and Western Asia are dualistic; they have to be. The ordinary man cannot think of anything which is not concrete. He naturally likes to cling to that which his intellect can grasp. That is to say, he can only conceive of higher spiritual ideas by bringing them down to his own level. He can only grasp abstract thoughts by making them concrete.
This is the religion of the masses all over the world. They believe in a God who is entirely separate from them, a great king, a high, mighty monarch, as it were.
- Swami Vivekananda, Jnana-Yoga, US
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