A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

THE ABSOLUTE AND MANIFESTATION. 233one with the Father, for I and my Father are One." Itwas the great Bilddha, in India, who never cared for theDualist gods, and the masses always used to call himAtheist and Materialist, and what not, yet he was readyto give up his body for a poor goat. That man set inmotion the highest moral ideas any nation of the humanrace can have. Wherever there is a moral code, it isa ray of light from that man. We cannot force thegreat hearts of the world into little narrow limits, andkeep them there, and especially at this time in the historyof humanity, when there is such a mass of intellectualdevelopment such as was never dreamed of, even ahundred years ago, a wave of scientific knowledge whichnobody, even fifty years ago, would have dreamed of.Do you want to* kill people by forcing them intonarrow limits ? It is impossible until you degrade theminto animals and unthinking masses. What is nowwanted is a combination of the highest intellectualitywith the greatest heart expansion, infinite love andinfinite knowledge, one with infinite existence, says theYedantist, and he gives no other attribute to Godexcept these three, that He is Infinite Existence, InfiniteKnowledge, and Infinite Bliss, and he says that thesethree are One. Existence without knowledge and love,cannot be. Knowledge without love cannot be, andLove without knowledge cannot be. That is what wewant, that harmony of Existence, Knowledge and BlissInfinite. Our goal is that perfection of Existence, Knowledge, and Bliss, not one-sided development. We wantharmony. It is possible to have the intellect of a gaintwith the heart of a Buddha, and I hope we shall allstruggleto attain to that one end.