A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"242 UNITY IN DIVERSITY.Sof yourself, stand up and be free, go beyond the pale ofthese laws, for these laws do not extend to all of nature,they are only part of your being.First find out that youare not the slave of nature, never were and never will be :that this nature, infinite as you may think it, is only finite,but one drop in the ocean, and your nature is as the ocean ;you are beyond the stars, or the sun, or the moon. Theyare like mere bubbles compared with your infinite being.Know that and youwill control both good and evil. Thenalone the whole vision will change and you will stand upand say, how beautiful isgood and how wonderful is evil.That is what the Vedanta wants you to do. It doesnot propose any slipshod remedy to cover things overwith gold paper, and the more the^ wound festers putting on the more gold paper. This life is a hard fact ;work out of it ifyou can, boldly, though it may be adamantine ;no matter, the soul is greater. It lays no responsibility on little gods but you are the makers of your fortunes.;You make yourselves suffer for good and evil, and it isyouwho put your hands before your eyes and sayit is dark.Hands oft and see the light ; you are effulgent, you areperfect already, from the very beginning. We understandit now. He goes from death to death who sees the manyhere.See that One and be free."How are we to know it ?^ay even this very mind,so deluded, so weak, so easily led, even this mind can bestrong and may catch a glimpse of that knowledge, thatOneness, and then it saves us from dying again and again^As water which fallsupon a mountain breaks into pieces,*and so many various streams run down the sides of themountain, so all the energies which you see here are thatone Unit beginning." It has become manifold falling uponMaya. Do not run for the manifold ; go towards the One.