A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

IMMORTALITY. 123fore, it is limited. But that which is beyond law, wheretfiere is nobodv to act upon it,how can that be limited ?It must be omnipresent. You are everywhere in the universe. How is it then that I am born and I am going todie, and all that ? That is the talk of ignorance, hallucinations of the brain. You were neither born, nor will die.You have had neither birth, nor will have rebirth, nor lifenor incarnation, nor anything. What do you mean bycoming and going ? All shallow nonsense. You are everywhere. Then what is this coming and going? It is thehallucination produced by the change of this fine body,what youcall the mind. That isgoing on. Just alittle speck of cloud passing before the sky. As it moveson and on, itmay create the delusion that the sky moves.Sometimes you see a cloud moving before the moon, andyou think the moon is moving.But it is the cloud. Whenor whenyou are in a train you see that the land is flying,you are in a boat, you think the water moves. In realityyou are neither going nor coming, nor born, or going tobe born, you are infinite, ever-present, beyond all causation,ever free, never born, and never die. Such a question isout of place ;such a questionis arrant nonsense to ask.Because there was no birth ;how could there be any mortality. You are the omnipresent beings of the universe.One step more we will have to go to get a logicalconclusion. There is no half-way house. You are metaphysicians, and there is no crying quarter.If then we are beyondall law, we must be omniscient, ever blessed, allknowledgemust be in us, and allpower and all blessedness. Certainly.You are the omniscient, omnipresent being of the universe.But of such beings can there be many? Can there be ahundred thousand millions of omnipresent beings? Certainlythere cannot be. Then what becomes of all of us ? You are