A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

REALIZATION. 281of jfchehigher worlds, although we do not see them, but bythe sheer force of logic could understand that this must bethe basis of all existence, then our problem would approachto some sort of solution, and this solution, therefore, certainly cannot be obtained from the world we see and know,because this is only one view of the whole.The only hope then lies in penetrating deeply. Theearly thftikers discovered that the further they were fromthe centre the more marked were the variation and differentiation, and the nearer they approached the centre thenearer they were to Unity. The nearer we are to thecentre of a circle the nearer we are to the commonground in which all the radii meet, and the farther weare from the centre, the more differentiated is our radicalline from the others. The external world is farther andfarther away from the centre, and so there is no commonground where all the phenomena of existence meet. Atbest the external world is but one part of the wholephenomenon. There are other parts, the mental phenomenon, the moral phenomenon, the intellectual phenomenon,the various planes of existence, and to take up only one,and find a solution of the whole out of that one, would besimply impossible. We first, therefore, want to find somewhere a centre from which, as it were, all the other planesof existence start, and standing there we will try to find asolution. That is the proposition. And where is that centre ?It is inside, internal man. Goingthey found that there,deeper and deeper insidein the innermost core of the humansoul, is the centre of the whole Universe. All the planescome and gravitate towards that one point ;there is thecommon ground, and standing there alone can we find acommon solution. So the question who made this world isneither very philosophical, nor does its solution amount to