A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

230 THE ABSOLUTE AND MANIFESTATION.everything, the Essence, and Reality of everything, theEver-free, the Ever-blissful, the Ever-existing. Throughmaterial science we come to the same Oneness. It isthat one of which all these are but the manifestation,and that which is the sum-total of everything whichexists, and the goal, the trend,of humanityis toward freedomand not towards bondage. Why should men be moral ?Because through that is the path towards freedom, andimmorality towards bondage.Another peculiarity of the Advaita systemis thatfrom its very start it is non-destructive. That is anotherglory, that boldness to preach,Nabuddkibhedamjanayedajnanam karmasanginam,Joshayet sarvaharmani vidvan yuktah samacharan.not disturb the faith of any, even those who, even"Dothrough ignorance, have attached themselves to lower formsof worship."That is what it says, Do not disturb, but helpeveryone to get higher and higher; include them all,if thisbe true, as this philosophy claims it to be, that itpreachesa God who is the sum-total. If you have a universal religionwhich ought to apply to everyone, that religion must notbe composed of only the parts, it must always be the sumtotal.This idea is not clearly with any other system whatsoever. They are all equally struggling to attain to thewhole. The existence of the part is merely for this, thatit is always struggling to become the whole. So, from thevery first it had no antagonism with the various sects existing in India. There are Dualists existing to-day, andtheir number isby far the largest in India, becauseDualism naturally comes through uneducated minds. Itis a reiy handy, natural, common-sense explanation, asthey call it. But with these Dualists Advaita has no quarrel.The one thinks the God of the Universe is outside the Uni-