Kathamrita Volume II - Swami Vivekananda

and its living beings to reach Sat-chit-ananda,one sees that He Himself has become the entireuniverse and its living beings. The kernelbelongs to the bel-fruit, just as the seeds andshell do. Butter is a part of milk, just asbuttermilk is; they belong to the samesubstance.“Even so, one may ask how Sat-chit-anandahas become so hard – touch the earth and youfind it hard. The answer is that blood andsemen are fluids, but they produce such a bigcreature as man. It is possible for God to doanything.“One must first reach the Indivisible Sat-chitanandaand then, coming down, observe thesethings.”World does not exist without God – distinctionbetween a yogi and a devotee“It is God alone who has become everything.The world does not exist apart from God.Having studied the Vedas from his guru,Ramachandra felt a spirit of dispassion [4] . Hesaid, ‘If the world is like a dream, one might aswell renounce it.’ Dasharatha [his father]became frightened at this. He sent guruVaishishtha to dissuade Rama. Vaishishthasaid, ‘Rama, why do you talk of giving up theworld? Please tell me, does the world existapart from God? If you can convince me that