PDF - Swami Vivekananda

Religion of The Twentieth Centurysouls are nothing but so many expressions ofthe one universal cosmic Being, who is theLord of the universe. The Creator is nothingbut the first manifestation of the AbsoluteBeing, therefore, He is called the first-bornLord. Modern science has one idea whichwas given in Vedanta centuries before Christ.In modern science we study that Evolution isfollowed by Involution and that evolution lastsfor a certain period of time, which is called acycle, while the cycle of evolution is followedby the cycle of involution, and this chain ofthe cycles of evolution and involution and thenagain evolution and involution is eternal. So,there is thebeginning of the cycle of evolution,but there is no beginning of matter, no beginningof force, no beginning of the substanceofthe universe.Just as there may be a beginning of the physicalform, but there is no beginning of the essencethat lives and enforces the physical formsof the individual soul.Each individual soul is32