"Thou art the woman, thou the man, thou art the boy, and the girl as well, thou the old man supporting thyself on a stick, thou art all in all in the universe."
That is the theme of Advaitism.
A few words more.
Herein lies, we find, the explanation of the essence of things.
We have seen how here alone we can take a firm stand against all the onrush of logic and scientific knowledge.
Here at last reason has a firm foundation, and, at the same time, the Indian Vedantist does not curse the preceding steps; he looks back and he blesses them, and he knows that they were true, only wrongly perceived, and wrongly stated.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Lahore,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
That is the theme of Advaitism.
A few words more.
Herein lies, we find, the explanation of the essence of things.
We have seen how here alone we can take a firm stand against all the onrush of logic and scientific knowledge.
Here at last reason has a firm foundation, and, at the same time, the Indian Vedantist does not curse the preceding steps; he looks back and he blesses them, and he knows that they were true, only wrongly perceived, and wrongly stated.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Lahore,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
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