PDF - Swami Vivekananda

Religion of The Twentieth Centuryinstruments of the present century have testifiedthe fact that human intelligence andwillpower are but the expressions of the All-knowingIntelligence and Almighty Will-power ofthe Divine Being.Again, the scientific Monism of this centuryhas given an irreparable blow to the olddualistic theory that mind and matter were twoseparate entities and that one was the causeof the other. Now we know that matter andmind are but the objective and subjectivemanifestations of one substance or Realitywhich is called by modern science the Unknownand the Unknowable. Herbert Spencer says :''Matter, motion and force are not the realitybut the symbols of Reality." He also says inhis Psychology :''The same reality is manifestedobjectively and subjectively."It expressesin the objective world as matter ;in the subjectiveworld as mind ; in the objective world asgravitation, electricity, heat and motion ; inthe subjective world as intellect, understanding10