Q.-- This state of oneness that you speak of, is it an ideal or something actually attained?
A.-- We say it is within actuality; we say we realise that state.
If it were only in talk, it would be nothing. The Vedas teach three things: this Self is first to be heard, then to be reasoned, and then to be meditated upon.
When a man first hears it, he must reason on it, so that he does not believe it ignorantly, but knowingly; and after reasoning what it is, he must meditate upon it, and then realise it. And that is religion.
Belief is no part of religion. We say religion is a superconscious state.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Q & A at Graduate Philosophical Society
of Harvard University on March 25, 1896
A.-- We say it is within actuality; we say we realise that state.
If it were only in talk, it would be nothing. The Vedas teach three things: this Self is first to be heard, then to be reasoned, and then to be meditated upon.
When a man first hears it, he must reason on it, so that he does not believe it ignorantly, but knowingly; and after reasoning what it is, he must meditate upon it, and then realise it. And that is religion.
Belief is no part of religion. We say religion is a superconscious state.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Q & A at Graduate Philosophical Society
of Harvard University on March 25, 1896
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