A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

REALIZATION. 287world exists, the other does not, thinking thus they comeagrfin and again under my power."Again, to understand this truth is very difficult. Many,evejj hearing it continually, do not understand, for thespeaker must be wonderful, so must be the hearer. Theteacher must be wonderful, so must be the taught. Neitheris the mind to be disturbed by vain argument, for it is nomore a question of argument, it is a question of Wefact.have heard always that there is a path in every religionwhich insists on our faith. We have been taught to believeblindly. Well, this idea of blind faith is objectionable, nodoubt no doubt it is very objectionable but analysingit we find that behind it is a very great truth. What theyreally mean is what we read now. The mind is not to beruffled by vain arguments, because argument will not bringus to know God. It is a question of fact and not of argument. All argument and reasoning must be based uponcertain principles. Without these principles there cannotbe any argument. Reasoning is the method of comparisonbetween certain facts which we have already absolutelyperceived. If these absolutely preceived facts are not therealready, there cannot be any reasoning. Just as it is truein the external sense, why should it not be at the same timetrue in the internal ? The great mistake into which we fallagain and again is this, that the external sensations alldepend on actual experiences. You are not asked to believein any assertions, but the rules become established by actualdemonstration, not in the form of argument, but by actualperception.arguments are based upon certain perceptions.The chemist takes certain things and certain other thingsare produced. This is a fact ; you see it, senseit, andmake that the basis on which to build allyour chemical