A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"THE ABSOLUTE AND MANIFESTATION. 229heart, infinite patience, making religion practical, bringingit to everyone s aoor in ; Sankaracharya tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of day overeverything. We want to-day the bright sun of intellectuality, and joined to it the heart of Buddha, the wonderful, infinite heart of love and mercy. Thus it will go on.It will be the highest philosophy, the highest intellectualreasoning, and side by side the most wonderful heart.Science and religion will shake hands and meet. Poetryand philosophy will shake hands and meet. And this willbe the religion of the future, and if we can work it out, wemay be sure that it will be for all times and professions.Ifyou go home and think, you may find that every sciencehas its defects, but this is the one way that modern sciencewill take, for it has almost fallen into it. When oneof your great teachers of science tells you that allthings are the manifestation of that one force, doyou not think it is the God of whom youTJpanishadshear in theAgniryatlwLiko bkuvanam pravishto rupam rupampratirupo babkuva.E kastatha sarvaWiutantaratma rupam rupam pratirupobahiscka.As the one fire entering into the Universe is expressing itself in various forms, and yet is infinitely morebesides, even so that one Soul is expressing Itself in everysoul and yet is infinitely more Do besides." you not seehow science isgoing ? The Hindu nation proceeded throughthe study of the mind, through metaphysics and logic.The European nations got hold of external nature, andnow they are both coming to the same results. We findthat searching through the mind we at last come to thatOneness, that Universal One, the Internal Soul of