Q.-- How does the Vedanta explain individuality and ethics?
A.-- The real individual is the Absolute; this personalization is through Maya. It is only apparent; in reality it is always the Absolute.
In reality there is one, but in Maya it is appearing as many. In Maya there is this variation. Yet even in this Maya there is always the tendency to get back to the One, as expressed in all ethics and all morality of every nation, because it is the constitutional necessity of the soul.
It is finding its oneness; and this struggle to find this oneness is what we call ethics and morality. Therefore we must always practice them.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Q & A at Graduate Philosophical Society
of Harvard University on March 25, 1896
A.-- The real individual is the Absolute; this personalization is through Maya. It is only apparent; in reality it is always the Absolute.
In reality there is one, but in Maya it is appearing as many. In Maya there is this variation. Yet even in this Maya there is always the tendency to get back to the One, as expressed in all ethics and all morality of every nation, because it is the constitutional necessity of the soul.
It is finding its oneness; and this struggle to find this oneness is what we call ethics and morality. Therefore we must always practice them.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Q & A at Graduate Philosophical Society
of Harvard University on March 25, 1896
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