JNANA YOGAM - 6.11.


13/02/2018
CHAPTER- VI
6 -THE ABSOLUTE AND MANIFESTATION-10
(Delivered in London, 1896)

It was the great Buddha, who never cared for the dualist gods, and who has been called an atheist and materialist, who yet was ready to give up his body for a poor goat.

That Man set in motion the highest moral ideas any nation can have. Whenever there is a moral code, it is ray of light from that Man.

We cannot force the great hearts of the world into narrow limits, and keep them there, especially at this time in the history of humanity when there is a degree of intellectual development such as was never dreamed of even a hundred years ago, when a wave of scientific knowledge has arisen which nobody, even fifty years ago, would have dreamed of.

By trying to force people into narrow limits you degrade them into animals and unthinking masses. You kill their moral life.

What is now wanted is a combination of the greatest heart with the highest intellectuality, of infinite love with infinite knowledge.

The Vedantist gives no other attributes to God except these three — that He is Infinite Existence, Infinite Knowledge, and Infinite Bliss, and he regards these three as One.

Existence without knowledge and love cannot be; knowledge without love and love without knowledge cannot be.

What we want is the harmony of Existence, Knowledge, and Bliss Infinite. For that is our goal.

We want harmony, not one-sided development. And it is possible to have the intellect of a Shankara with the heart of a Buddha. I hope we shall all struggle to attain to that blessed combination.

THE END
NEXT : PRACTICAL VEDANTA
PART I
(Delivered in London, 10th November 1896)
Swami Vivekananda

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