Jnana-Yoga - 5.7.

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04/11/2017

CHAPTER -5.MAYA AND FREEDOM

MAYA AND FREEDOM -7.

(Delivered in London, 22nd October 1896)


Now all these various manifestations of religion, in whatever shape and form they have come to mankind, have this one common central basis. It is the preaching of freedom, the way out of this world. They never came to reconcile the world and religion, but to cut the Gordian knot, to establish religion in its own ideal, and not to compromise with the world. That is what every religion preaches, and the duty of the Vedanta is to harmonise all these aspirations, to make manifest the common ground between all the religions of the world, the highest as well as the lowest.

What we call the most arrant superstition and the highest philosophy really have a common aim in that they both try to show the way out of the same difficulty, and in most cases this way is through the help of someone who is not himself bound by the laws of nature in one word, someone who is free. In spite of all the difficulties and differences of opinion about the nature of the one free agent, whether he is a Personal God, or a sentient being like man, whether masculine, feminine, or neuter — and the discussions have been endless — the fundamental idea is the same. In spite of the almost hopeless contradictions of the different systems, we find the golden thread of unity running through them all, and in this philosophy, this golden thread has been traced revealed little by little to our view, and the first step to this revelation is the common ground that all are advancing towards freedom.

Swami Vivekananda

To be continued ...

NOTE : -

1. Muslims and Christians must understand that  Bharatham is above the top of the world Spiritually high above Islam and Christianity,  as Sanatana Dharmam is followed here many years before the birth of Christianity and Islam.

2. All scriptures in Sanatana Dharmam far superior than Christian's Bible and Mohammedan's Quran.

3. Sanatana Dhrmam consider world as a single family, and the People of Bharatham pray for the welfare of the whole world, which is not found in Christianity and Islam as they both hate themselves and others too.

4. Bharatham is Holy Nation because of its Realisation of ONENESS IN  ALL  / AS JIVATMA IS THE PART OF PARAMATMA.

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