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Prabuddha Bh Arata 68 ISSN 0032-6178 R.N. 2585/57 REGISTERED Postal Registration No. Kol RMS/96/2016–18 Published on 1 November 2017 RABUDDHA 9 770032 617002 P HARATA B or AWAKENED INDIA A monthly journal of the Ramakrishna Order started by Swami Vivekananda in 1896 November 2017 Vol. 122, No. 11 ` 15.00 If undelivered, return to: ADVAITA ASHRAMA, 5 Dehi Entally Road, Kolkata 700 014, India 76 ISSN 0032-6178 R.N. 2585/57 REGISTERED Postal Registration No. Kol RMS/96/2016–18 Published on 1 December 2017 RABUDDHA 9 770032 617002 P H ARATA B or AWAKENED INDIA A monthly journal of the Ramakrishna Order started by Swami Vivekananda in 1896 December 2017 Vol. 122, No. 12 ` 15.00 If undelivered, return to: ADVAITA ASHRAMA, 5 Dehi Entally Road, Kolkata 700 014, India THE ROAD TO WISDOM Swami Vivekananda on Analysis of Vedanta Philosophy VI he last are the non-dualists. They raise Tthe question also, that God must be both the material and the efficient cause of this universe. As such, God has become the whole of this universe and there is no going against it. And when these other people say that God is the soul, and the universe is the body, and the body is changing, but God is changeless, the non-dualists say, all this has become the universe, He is changeful, is nonsense. In that case what is the use and if He is changeful, He is part of nature, of calling God the material cause of this and whatever is nature and changeful is universe? The material cause is the cause born and dies. If our God is changeful, He become effect; the effect is nothing but must die some day. Again, how much of the cause in another form. Wherever you God has become this universe? If you say see an effect, it is the cause reproduced. X (the unknown algebraical quantity), then If the universe is the effect, and the God God is God minus X now, and, therefore, the cause, it must be the reproduction of not the same God as before this creation, God. If you say that the universe is the because so much has become this universe. body of God, and that the body becomes So the non-dualists say, 'This universe does contracted and fine and becomes the not exist at all; it is all illusion. The whole cause, and out of that the universe is of this universe, these Devas, gods, angels, evolved, the non-dualists say that it is God and all the other beings born and dying, Himself who has become this universe. all this infinite number of souls coming up Now comes a very fine question. If this and going down, are all dreams.' There is God has become this universe, you and all no Jiva at all. How can there be many? It is these things are God. Certainly. This book the one Infinity. As the one sun, reflected is God, everything is God. My body is God, on various pieces of water, appears to be and my mind is God, and my soul is God. many, and millions of globules of water Then why are there so many Jivas? Has reflect so many millions of suns, and in God become divided into millions of Jivas? each globule will be a perfect image of Does that one God turn into millions of the sun, yet there is only one sun, so are Jivas? Then how did it become so? How can all these Jivas but reflections in different that infinite power and substance, the one minds. Being of the universe, become divided? It is rom The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, impossible to divide infinity. How can that (Kolkata: Advaita Ashrama, 2015), 1.401-403. pure Being become this universe? 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