Swami Vivekananda
Brahman is like the clay of substance out of which an infinite variety of articles are fashioned. As clay, they are all one,but form or manifestation differentiates them.Before every one of them was made,they all existed potentially in clay, and of course, they are identical substantially ;but when formed , and so long as the form remains, they are separate and different.
We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free but are free already.Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.Every idea that we are happy or unhappy is a tremendous delusion.
Everyone is but a manifestation of the Impersonal,the basis of all being,and misery consists in thinking of ourselves as different from the Infinite , Impersonal being, and liberation consists in knowing our unity with this wonderful Impersonality.
The whole universe is bound by the law of causation. There cannot be anything, any fact either in the internal or in the external world that does not have a cause, and every cause must produce an effect.
When you look at the unchanging existence in the outside you call it God.When you look at it from inside you call it yourself. But both are one and the same.
A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. And returns to the starting point.One must end where one started and as one starts from God, one must go back to God. Through eternity one has to do the detailed work.
I am proud to tell you that I belong to the religion in whose sacred language , the Sanskrit , the word exclusion is untranslatable.
Differentiation infinitely contradictory, must remain, but there is no need to hate each other and fight with each other.
Variety is the first principle of life.What makes us formed beings is differentiation. Perfect balance will be destruction.
There is no you or me,all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one finite existence i.e God.
The whole universe is to us a writing of the infinite in the language of the finite.
Amidst this chaos, there is harmony, through out this discordantsonds there is a note of concord, and he who is prepared to listen to it will catch the tone.