A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

280 REALIZATION.see from this that our explanation of the Universe is notthe whole of the solution. Neither does our conceptioncover the whole of the Universe. It would be a greatmistake to accept that tremendously selfish position whichman is apt to take. Such a solution of the Universalproblem as we can get from the outside labours under thisdifficulty, that in the first place the Universe we see is ourown particular Universe, our own view of the Reality. Thewe cannot takeReality we cannot see through the senses ;it in ;it never can be so. We only know the Universe fromthe point of view of beings with five senses. Suppose weobtain another sense, the whole Universe must change.Suppose we had a magnetic sense, and it is quite possiblethat there are millions and millions of varieties of forces inexistence which we do not know yet, for which we have nosense or feeling. Our senses are only limited, very limitedindeed, and within those limitations, exists what we callour Universe, and our God is the solution of our Universe,but that cannot be the solution of the whole problem. Thatcannot be ;it is nothing, so to say. But man cannot stop. Heis a thinking being, and he wants to find a solution whichwill allcomprehensively explain the Universes. He wantsto see a world which is at once the world of men and ofGod, and of all beings possible and impossible, and hewants to find one solution which will explain allphenomena.We see it will be possible only to find first the Universe where all Universes are one, to find something which,by itself, of a logical necessity must be the background,the material running through all these various planes ofexistence, whether we apprehenditthrough the senses ornot. If we could possibly find something which we couldknow as the common property of the lower worlds, as also