A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

";364 VEDANTA.the Creator of this universe, its Preserver, and unto Whomeverything goes at last. He is One to be worshipped, theRuler, the Guide of nature, external and internal, yet as ifhe were something outside of Nature and external. Onestep further, and we find the same teacher teaching thatthis God is not outside Nature, but immanent in Nature.And at last both ideas are discarded and whatever is realis He there is no; difference. Tat twam asi Svetaketo.That immanent one is at last declared to be the same thatis in the human soul. Svetaketu, Thou that art." Hereis no compromise ;here is no fear of other s opinions. Truth,bold truth, has been taught in bold language, and weneed not fear to preach the truth in the same bold languageto-day, and by the Grace of God I hope at least to be thebold one who dares to be tha bold preacher.To go back to our preliminaries. There are first twothings to be understood, one the psychological aspect common to all the Vedantic schools, and the other cosmologicalaspect. To-day you find wonderful discoveries ofmodern science coming upon us like bolts from the blue,opening our eyes to marvels we never dreamt of. Manhad long since discovered what he calls force. It is onlythe other day that man came to know that even in themidst of this variety of forces there is a unity. Manhas just discovered that what he calls heat, or magnetismOr electricity, or so forth,- are all convertible into onething, and as such he expresses all that one unit force,whatever you may call it. This has been done even inthe Samhita ;old and ancient, hoary as the Samhita is,that very idea of force I was referring you to. All theforces, either you call them gravitation, or attraction, orrepulsion, either expressing themselves as heat, or electricity, or magnetism, are nothing, not one step further.