A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

382 VEDANTA.is there for a God, as the Jains say, who believe in soulsunlike the Buddhists, and do not believe in God. "Whereare you logical, where are you moral ? And when you* 1 tryto criticise that advaitism will make for immorality, justread a little of what has been done in India by Dualisticsects, and what has been broughtbefore law courts. Ifthere have been twenty thousand Advaitist blackguards,there will be twenty thousand Dwaitist blackguards.Generally speaking, there will be more Dwaitist blackguards, because it takes a better type of mind to understandit (Advaitism), and they can scarcely be frightened intoanything. What stands for you then ? There is no helpout of the clutches of the Buddhist. You may quote theYedas, but he does not believe in them. He will say,"my Tripetakcis say no, al*d they are without beginningor end, not even written by Buddha, for Buddha says heis only reciting them ; they are eternal." And he addsthat yours are wrong, ours are the true Vedas, yours aremanufactured by the Brahmin priests,out with them.How do you escape ?Here is the way to get out. Take up the first objection, the metaphysical one, that substance and qualitiesare different. Says the Advaitist they are not. There isno difference between substance and qualities.You knowthe old illustration, how the rope is taken for the snake, andwhen you see the snake you do not see the rope at all, therope has vanished. Dividing the thing into substance andquality is metaphysical something in the brains of philosophers,never can there be an effect outside. You see substance ifyou are an ordinary man, and qualities if youare a great but yogi, you never see both at the sametime. So Buddhists, your quarrel about substance andqualitieshas been but a miscalculation which does not