A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

REALIZATION. 30 1can be worked out on the other side ;the animals also maytiedegraded men. How do you know it is not so ? Youhave seen that the proof of evolution is simply this, that youfiiM a series of bodies, one near to the other, from thelowest body to the highest body, but from that argumenthow can you insist that it is from the lower up, and notfrom the top down ? The argument applies to both sides,,and ifanything is true, I believe it is going up and downthe series repeating itself. How can you have an evolution without an involution going back in the same series inwhich we came up? However it be, the central idea towhich I am referring is there.Of course I am ready to be convinced the other way,,that the infinite can manifest itself, and as to the otheridea, that we are going ever and ever in a straight line, Ido not believe it ;it is too much nonsense to believe.There is no motion in a straight line. If you throw astone forward, a time will come when it will complete thecircle back. Do you not read the mathematical axiom, astraight line infinitely projectedbe so, only it may vary as to details. Sobecomes a circle ? It mustI always cling tothe side of the old religious ideas, when I see Christ preachand Buddha preach, and the Yedanta declare, and theBible declare it,that we must all come to that perfectionin time, but by giving up this imperfection. This world isnothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadowof the reality. All the fools are running to enjoy thesenses.It is easy to run in the senses. It is easier to run inthe old groove, eating and drinking, but what these modernphilosophers want to tell you is to take these comfortableideas and put the stamp of religion on them. But thatdoctrine is not true. Death is in the senses. We must go