A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"HearMAYA AND ILLUSION. 167solution, but a young boy is standing up in the midst ofthem and declaringS rinvantu visve atnritasya puttrah,Aye dhamani divyani tasthuh \\5\\.* * * * * ** * *Vedaham etam purushani mahantam,Adityavamam tamash parastat,Tamevam viditva ati mrityum eti tNanyah panthavidyate ayanaya \\8\\ye children of immortality, hear ye who live in thehighest places, I have found the way. There is a way outbeyond the darkness by knowing Him who isbeyond thisdarkness." We find this assertion as coming from the sameUpanisjiad. This may a is there it is terrible; ;to workthrough mayd is impossible.If a man says, I will sit besidethis river and I will ford the river when it has run down intothe ocean, that man would be as much correct as the manwho says he will work till this world has become all good,neither will one come orand he will then enjoy this world,the other. The way is not with niaya but against maya.This is another fact to leajrn. We are not born helpersof Nature, but competitors with Nature. We are the bondmasters,and we are trying to bind ourselves down.Whyis this house here ? Nature did not giveit. Nature says,go and live in the forest. Man says I will build a houseand fight with Nature and he does. The whole historyof humanity is a continuous fight against the so-calledlaws of Nature, and man gains in the end. Coming intothe eternal world, there too the same fight is going on,this fight between the animal man and the spiritual man,between light and darkness, and here too man becomesvictorious. He, as it were, cuts his way out of Nature tothis idea of liberty. We have seen so far, then, that here