A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"""""""""""""""""SWAMI S REPLY TO THE ADDRESSES. 55Either to the sharp analysis of the Vaiseshikasresulting in the wonderful theories about the Paramanus,"theDvyanus,"and the Transarenusor to the still more wonderful analysis displayedin the discussions of the Jati, Dravya, Guna, Samavaya,and the other categories of the Naiyayikas, risingto the solemn march of thought of the Sankhyas,.the fathei-s of the theories of evolution, ending with theripe fruit, the result of all these researches, the Sutrasof Vyasa,"the one background to all these differentis still theanalyses and syntheses of the human mind,Srutis, Even in the philosophical writings of the Buddhists and the "Jains,the help of the Srutis is neverrejected, and at least in some of the Buddhistic schoolsand in the majority of the Jain writings, the authority ofthe Srutis is fully admitted except in regard to what theyHimsakacall theSrutis, which they hold to be the interpolations of Brahmins. In recent times such a viewhas been held by the late great Swami DayanandaSarasvati.If it be asked to point out the one system towardswhich as a centre all ancient and modern Indian thoughthas convergedif one wants to see the real backbone of;Hinduism in all its various manifestations, the Sutrasof Vyasawill unquestionably be pointed out as constituting all that.Whether one hears the Advaita Kesari roaring inpeals of thunder, the Ashti-Bhati and Priya amidstthe heart- stopping solemnities of the Himalayan forestsmixing with the solemn cadence of the River of Heaven,or listens to the cooing of thePika,"in thePiya,"beautiful bowers of the grove of Brinda ;whether onemingles with the sedate meditations of the monasteries of