Swami Vivekananda

====================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24/04/2020. [A Jnana-Yogam class delivered in New York, Wednesday, December 11, 1895, and recorded by Swami Kripananda] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. It is always rational to take the side of things which you can understand — to take the side of fact. Transmission of thought is perfectly understandable. Therefore we are able to take up the [concept of] transmission of thought, and not of hereditary impressions of protoplasmic cells alone. We need not brush aside the theory, but the main stress must be laid upon the transmission of thought. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Now a father does not transmit thought. It is thought alone that transmits thought. The child that is born existed previously as thought. We