Kathamrita Volume II - Swami Vivekananda

“As long as one entertains the feeling of I-consciousness, one cannot go beyond thephenomenal world. By negating the Relativewhile meditating, saying, ‘Not this, not this [6] ,’one reaches the Absolute. But nothing canreally be denied, as I gave you the illustrationof the bel-fruit.”The Doctor — That is certainly true.Sri Ramakrishna — Kacha passed intoNirvikalpa samadhi. When his samadhi ended,someone asked him, ‘What do you see now?’Kacha said, ‘I see that the world is one withHim. Everything is filled with God. It is Godwho has become all that I see. I do not knowwhat to reject and what to accept.’“Do you know what I think? Having attainedthe vision of the Absolute, together with thephenomenal world, one should live with theattitude of being a servant of God. Hanumansaw both God with form and without form.Thereafter, he lived with the attitude of aservant of God, as His devotee.”Mani (to himself) — One must accept both theAbsolute [7] and the phenomenal world [8] .Since the Vedanta philosophy has reachedGermany, some of the European philosophershave accepted this line of thought. Thakur,however, says, ‘One does not attain the vision