A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"Truth378 VEDANTA.,as all ofsecondly, this God is illogical and impossible,you are aware. We need not go into the defects of tHeDesign people as all our Kshanikas had to declare, and c sothis personal God fell to pieces. Truth, and nothing buttruth, you declare is your one word ; Satyameva jayati.alone triumphs, and not untruth."Throughtruth alone the way to Devayanam lies. Everybodymarches forward under that banner ; aye, but is it)L>only tosmash weak man s position under his own. You come withyour Dualistic idea of God to pick up a quarrel with apoor man who is worshiping an image, and you think youare wonderfully rational, you can break him up and if heturns round and smashes up your own personal God, andcalls that an imaginary ideal, where are you? You fallback on faith and so on, of raise up the cry of atheism,the old cry of weak man whosoever defeats him is anatheist. If you are to be rational, be rational all alongthe line, and if not allow others the same privilege whichyou ask for yourselves. How can you prove the existenceof this God ? On the other hand, it can be disprovedalmost. There is not a shadow of proof as to his existence,and there is some proof to the* contrary. How will you provehis existence with your God, and his gunas, and an infinitenumber of souls which are substance and each soul an individual ? In what are you an individual ? You are not as abody, for you know to-day better than even the Buddhists ofold knew that what may have been matter in the sun hasjust now become matter in you, and just now will go out andbecome matter in the plants, where isyour individuality,you Mr. so and so? The same applies to the mind.Where is your individuality? You have one thought tonight and another to-morrow. You do not think the same,way as you thought when you were a child, ^andold men