A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"""388 VEDANTA.that there is a relation and co-relation between all things;and the next is that there is only one thing which we seeas many. The first idea of God of the ignorant is that thisGod is somewhere outside of the universe, that is to say,the conception of God is extremely human ; just He doeswhat a man does, only on a bigger scale. And we haveseen how that God is proved in a few words to be unreasonable and insufficient. And the next idea is the ideaof a power we see manifested everywhere. This is thereal personal God we get in the Chandibut, mark me, nota God that you make the reservoir of all good qualitiesonly. You cannot have two gods, God and Satan ; youmust have only one, and dare to call Him good and bad,but have only one, and take the logical consequences.Thus we salute Thee^Oh Goddess, who lives in everybeing as peace who lives in;all beings as At thepurity."same time we must take the whole consequence of it.Allthis bliss, Oh Gargi, wherever there is bliss there is aportion of Thee. You may use it how you like. In thislight before me you may try to give a poor man a hundredrupees, and another man will forge your name, but thelight will be the same for both. This is the second stage ;and the third is that the God is neither outside naturenor insidenature, but God and Nature and soul and universe are all convertible terms. You never see two things ;it isyour metaphysical words that have deluded you.You assume that you are a body and have a soul, andthat you are both together. How can that be ? Try inyour own mind. If there is a yogi among you, he thinks ofhimself as chaitanya, the body has vanished. If ordinarythe idea of spirit hasman, he thinks of himself as a body ;vanished ;but because the metaphysical ideas exist thatman has a body and a soul and all these things, you think