Thus we realise that all these phenomena are but the reflections, bifurcated or manifolded, of the one existence, truth-bliss-unity -- my real Self and the reality of everything else.
Then and then only is it possible to do good without evil, for such a soul has known and got the control of the material of which both good and evil are manufactured, and he alone can manifest one or the other as he likes, and we know he manifests only good.
This is the Jivan-mukta -- the living free -- the goal of Vedanta as of all other philosophies.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Mary Hale
from London (November 1896)
Then and then only is it possible to do good without evil, for such a soul has known and got the control of the material of which both good and evil are manufactured, and he alone can manifest one or the other as he likes, and we know he manifests only good.
This is the Jivan-mukta -- the living free -- the goal of Vedanta as of all other philosophies.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Mary Hale
from London (November 1896)
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