Let us take our stand on the one central truth in our religion
-- the common heritage of the Hindus, the Buddhists, and Jains alike -- the spirit of man, the Atman of man,
the immortal, birthless, all-pervading, eternal soul of man whose glories the Vedas cannot themselves express,
before whose majesty the universe with its galaxy upon galaxy of suns and stars and nebulae is as a drop.
Every man or woman, nay, from the highest Devas to the worm that crawls under our feet, is such a spirit evoluted or involuted.
The difference is not in kind, but in degree.
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘Reply to the Madras Address’
-- the common heritage of the Hindus, the Buddhists, and Jains alike -- the spirit of man, the Atman of man,
the immortal, birthless, all-pervading, eternal soul of man whose glories the Vedas cannot themselves express,
before whose majesty the universe with its galaxy upon galaxy of suns and stars and nebulae is as a drop.
Every man or woman, nay, from the highest Devas to the worm that crawls under our feet, is such a spirit evoluted or involuted.
The difference is not in kind, but in degree.
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘Reply to the Madras Address’
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