A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"42 HINDUISM AS A RELIGION.reality, of its own nature and existence existence absolute,knowledge absolute, and life absolute. W have oftenand often read about this being called the losing of indivi-*duality as in becoming a stock or a stone. He jests atscars that never felt a wound."I tellyou it is nothing of the kind. If it is happinessto enjoy the consciousness of this small body, it must bemore happiness to enjoy the consciousness of two bodies,so three, four, or five and the ultimate of happiness wouldbe reached when this sense of enjoymentuniversal consciousness.INFINITEINDIVIDUALITY.would become aTherefore, to gain such infinite universal individualitythis miserable little individuality must go. Then alonecan death cease, when I am one with life.Then alone canmisery cease when I am one with happinessalone can all errors cease when I am one with knowledgeitself. And this is a necessary scientific conclusion.itself. ThenScience has proved that physical individuality is a delusion,that really my body is one little continuously changingbody in an unbroken ocean of matter, and aduxdtism isthus the necessary conclusion in regard to other counterpart, mind .Science isnothing but the finding of unity, and as soonas any science can reach the perfect unity it must stopfrom further progress, because it will then have reachedthe goal. Thus, chemistry cannot progress farther whenit shall have discovered one element out of which all otherscan be made. Physics will stop when it becomes able todiscover the one energy of which all others are butmanifestations. The science of religion became perfectwhen it discovered Him who is the one life in a universemyof death, who is the constant basis of an ever-changing world