Wherefrom all these entities are born, by which being born, they abide; into which at the time of dissolution, they enter- seek to know that; That is Brahman.
To the modern scientist, that self-evolving cause is a material reality, the background material or cosmic dust, as astrophysicist Fred Hoyle terms it; whereas, to Vedanta, which views it also in the light of the consciousness revealed in its evolutionary product, namely, man, it is a universal spiritual principal, the cit akasa.
Referring to this spiritual kinship between modern science and ancient Vedanta, Swami Vivekananda said in his speech at the Parliament of Religious held at Chicago in 1893.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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