A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

THE COSMOS: THE MACROCOSM. 253th y e seed ;humanilife comes out of human germs and goesback to human germs. The stars and the rivers, and theplanets come out of nebulous state and go back to nebulous state. What do we learn ? That the manifested, orthe grosser state is the effect and the finer state is thecause. Already it has been demonstrated by the greatfather of all philosophy, Kapila, thousands of years ago,that Destruction means going back to the causes. If thistable here is destroyed, it will only go back to its causes, tothose fine forms and particles which, combined, made thisform which we call table. If a man dies, he will go backto the elements which gave him his body if;this earth diesit will go back to the elements which gaveit form. Thisis what is called destruction ; going back to the cause.Therefore we learn that the effect is the same as the cause,not different. It is only in another form. The materialswhich compose this table are the causes, and the table theeffect, and all the causes are present here.This glass is aneffect, and it had its causes, and these causes are alreadypresent in this effect. A certain amount of the materialcalled glass plus the force in the hands of the manufacturer ;these are the two causes, the instrumental and the material ;these two causes have combined in this form calleda glass. Both of them are present. The force which wasin the wheel of some machine is present as the power ofadhesion, and without that the particles will fall apart, andthe glass material is also present. It is only a manifestationof these fine causes in a new shape, and if this glass bebroken to pieces, the force which was here in the form ofadhesion, will go back and join its own element, and theparticles of glass will go back and remain the same untilbecoming fresh forms.Thus we find that the effect is never different from