A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"236 UNITY IN DIVERSITY.on it isdropped entirely, for they found that immortalitywhich isbeyond time and space cannot be spoken ofwith regard to any physical form, however fine it maybe. However fine itmay be it must have a beginningin time and space, for the necessary factors that enteredinto the make up of form are in space. Try to thinkof having form without space ;it is impossible. Spaceis one of the materials, as it were, which makes up theform, and this is continually changing. Space and timeare in Maya, and this ideais related in the lineWhatis here, that is there too." If there are these gods,they must be bound by the same laws as apply here,and the one end of all laws, in their development, involves destruction and renewal again and again. Theselaws are taking the whole of matter to"*pieces,as it were,moulding out of it different forms, and inversely crushingthem out into matter again. Everything born must die,and so, if there are heavens, the same laws must hold goodthere.In this world we find that all happiness is followed bysome sort of misery as its shadow. Life has its shadowdeath. They must go together, because they are notcontradictory, not two separate existences, but differentmanifestations of the same unit factor, life and death,sorrow or happiness, good or evil. The dualistic conception that good and evil are two separate entities, and thatthey are both going on eternally, is absurd on the face ofit.They are the various manifestations of one and thesame fact, one time appearing as bad, and at another timeas good. The difference does not exist in kind, but onlyin degree. They differ from each other in degree ofintensity. We find as a fact that the same nerve systemscarry good and bad sensations alike, and when the nerves are