A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

REALIZATION. 295stances, I hate, I call it pain. So the difference is only inthe degree, the manifestation, not in the thing itself.There is no such thing as that we call good or bad. Thefire that warms us, would burn the child ;it would not bethe fault of the fire. Thus, the soul being pure and perfect, the man who wants to do evil is giving the lie untohimself, he does not know the nature of himself. Even inthe murderer the pure soul is there ;it dies not. It was hismistake ;he could not manifest it ;he had covered it up.Nor in the man who thinks that he is killed is the soul killed?it is the eternal, never killed, never destroyed. Infinitelysmaller than the smallest,r.infinitely larger than the largest,yet this Lord of all is present in the depths of everyhumanheart. The sinless, bereft of all misery, see him throughthe mercy of the Lord ;the bodiless, yet living in the body,the spaceless, yet seeming to occupy space, infinite, omnipresent ; knowing such to be the soul, the sages neverare miserable. This Atman is not to be realised by thepower of speech, nor by a vast intellect, nor by the study ofthe Vedas.This is a very bold thing. As I told you before, thesages were very bold thinkers, never stopped at anything.You will remember that in India these Vedas areregardedin such a light as the Christians never regarded the Bible.Your idea of revelation is,that a man was inspired by God ;but their idea was, that things exist because they arein theVedas. In and through the Vedas the whole creation hascome. All that is called knowledge is in the Vedas. Everyword is sacred and eternal, eternal as the created man,without beginning and without end. As it were, the wholeof the Creator s mind is in this book. That was the lightin which they held the Vedas. Whyis this moral?because the Vedas say so. Whyis this immoral ? because