In India, in every age, there is a cycle of sects which represents every gradation of physical practice, from the extreme of self-torture to the extreme of excess.
And during the same period will always be developed a metaphysical cycle, which represents the realization of God as taking place by every gradation of means, from that of using the senses as an instrument to that of the annihilation of the senses.
Thus Hinduism always consists, as it were, of two counter-spirals, completing each other, round a single axis.
- Swami Vivekananda, Sayings and Utterances
And during the same period will always be developed a metaphysical cycle, which represents the realization of God as taking place by every gradation of means, from that of using the senses as an instrument to that of the annihilation of the senses.
Thus Hinduism always consists, as it were, of two counter-spirals, completing each other, round a single axis.
- Swami Vivekananda, Sayings and Utterances
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