The fact is, everything existing has two aspects. One is noumenal, unchanging and indestructible; the other is phenomenal, changing and destructible.
Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit. This soul, this spirit, never changes, is never destroyed; but it appears to be clothed with a form and to have a name associated with it. This form and name are not immutable or indestructible; they continually change and are destroyed.
Yet men foolishly seek immortality in this changeable aspect, in the body and mind -- they want to have an eternal body.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Lecture in San Francisco, March 20, 1900
Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit. This soul, this spirit, never changes, is never destroyed; but it appears to be clothed with a form and to have a name associated with it. This form and name are not immutable or indestructible; they continually change and are destroyed.
Yet men foolishly seek immortality in this changeable aspect, in the body and mind -- they want to have an eternal body.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Lecture in San Francisco, March 20, 1900
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