A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

""How386 VEDANTA.march, and this is what is called renunciation, vairagya*Back from the senses, back, do not go to the senses, is thewatchword of vairagya. This is the watchword of allmorality, this is the watchword of all well-being, for youmust remember that the universe begins in tapasya, inrenunciation ;and as you go back and back, all the formsare being manifested before you, and they are left asideone after the other until you remain what you. really are.This is mokska, or liberation.This idea we have to understand Vijnataram kena"vijaniyat.to know the knower ;the knower cannotbe known, because if it were known it will not be theknower. If you look at your eyes in a reflecting mirror,the reflection is no more your eyes, but something else,only a reflection. Then if this Soul, this universal, infinitebeing which you are, is only a witness, what good is it ?It cannot live, and move about, and enjoy the world, aswe do. People cannot understand how the witness canenjoy.Oh you Hindus have become quiescent, and goodfor nothing, through such a doctrine that you are witnesses." First of all it isonly the witness that can enjoy.If there is a kusti, who enjoys it, those who are playing,or those who are looking on outside ? The more and moreyou are the witness of anything in life, the more you enjoyit. And this is anandam, and therefore infinite bliss canonly be when you have become the witness of this universe,then alone you are a mukta. It is the witness alone thatcan work without any desire, without any idea of goingto heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea ofThe witnesspraise.alone enjoys, and none else.Coming to the moral aspect, there is one thing betweenthe metaphysical and the moral aspect of Advaitism ;it isthe theory of maya. Everyone of these pointsin the