Vivekananda and Vedas

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From Veeraswamy KrishnarajVivekananda is imbued in and soaking wet with Vedas, so much so that you cann't say where Vivekananda ends and Vedas begin. Here is one example. There are 523 instances wherein Swami Vivekananda speaks about the Greatness of Vedas. Get the CD ROM and find out more.

The Complete

Works of Swami Vivekananda

Volume 1 [

Page : 357 ]

THE VEDANTA

PHILOSOPHY

 

There is something outside of ourselves, the

true nature of which is unknown and unknowable to us; let us call it x . And there is something

inside, which is also unknown and unknowable to us; let us call it y

.. The knowable

is a combination of x plus y ,

and everything that we know, therefore, must have two parts, the x outside, and the y inside; and the x plus y

is the thing we know. So, every form in the universe is partly our

creation and partly something outside. Now what the Vedanta holds is that this x and this y

are one and the same.

 

A very similar

conclusion has been arrived at by some western philosophers, especially by

Herbert Spencer, and some other modern philosophers. When it is said that the

same power which is manifesting itself in the flower is welling up in my own

consciousness, it is the very same idea which the Vedantist wants to preach,

that the reality of the external world and the reality of the internal world

are one and the same. Even the ideas of the internal and external exist by

differentiation and do not exist in the things themselves. For instance, if we

develop another sense, the whole world will change for us, showing that it is

the subject which will change the object. If I change, the external world

changes. The

theory of the Vedanta, therefore, comes to this, that you and I and everything

in the universe are that Absolute, not parts, but the whole. You are the whole

of that Absolute, and so are all others, because the idea of part cannot come

into it. These divisions, these limitations, are only apparent, not in the

thing itself. I am complete and perfect, and I was never bound, boldly preaches

the Vedanta. If you think you are bound, bound you will remain; if

you know that you are free, free you are. -----------------Dear Jaldharji,

Please give us the reference where it

is stated that "Swami Vivekananda did not read Vedas". None of the

authentic books published by Ramakrishna Math & Mission say so to

the best of my information.

Since u seem s to beallergic to

Stephen Knapp, i have separately forwarded the photos and information

about Taj Mahal/Tejo Mahalya. regards.

chetan

-- Chetan Merani"Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people." Swami Vivekananda