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What is the sum total of the Vedantist position ?, 4’
am anillusion, Externally. In reality, the true ‘I’ am the
Infinite, and if the illusionary ‘I’ could only realise Who
‘T really am, how very happy we should all be!” ‘And
here we have Karma, rebirth, all the mighty laws of
nature operating no where in no thing!
There is no room for worship or for morality in the
Adyaitist system. All the specious pleas of the Bhagavad-
Gita, and the ethical works of Western Advaitist philoso-
phers, are more or less consciously confusion of thought.
But no subtlety can turn the practical argument; the
grinning mouths of the Dvaitist guns keep the fort of
Ethics, and warn metaphysics to keep off the rather green
grass/of religion.
That its apologists should have devoted so much
time, thought, scholarship, and ingenuity
to this question
is the best proof of the fatuity of the Advaita position.
There is then a flaw somewhere. I boldly take up
the glove against all previous wisdom, revert to the most.
elementary ideas of cannibal savages, challenge all the
Most vital premisses and axiomata that have passed
current coin with philosophy for centuries, and present
my theory,
_ I clearly foresee the one difficulty, and will discuss it
in advance. If my conclusions on this point are not
accepted, we may at once get back to our previous irri-
table agnosticism, and look for our Messiah elsewhere.
But if we can see together on this one point, I think
_ things will go fairly smoothly afterwards.