From Colombo to Almora Being A Record of Swami Vivekananda’s Return to India After His Mission to the West

This naturally is coming to the rescue the oneness of all the immense Infinite the idea of the Impersonal the wondeful idea of the eternal soul of man of the unbroken contnuity in the march of beings the infinity of the universe."12 rho of rtril 15171IC1)7! /eS IlLudiasrt from Me ei'c minor laws For the old sects looked upon the world as a little mud puddle and thought that time began [...] WE cannot adequately express our indebtedness to you for making the people of the West know the catholicity of our religion and for impressing upon the minds of the Savants of the West the truth that there are more things in the Philosophy of the Hindus than are dreamt of in the Philosophy of the West. [...] The main ideas of the Karma Kanda the duties of man the duties of the student of the householder. of the recluse and so forth tie duties of various stations are followed more or less down to the present day. [...] But the spiritual portion of our religion is in the second part the Gnona Kanda the Vedanta the end of the Vedas the gist the goal of the Vedas. [...] That is to say the body is here beyond that the mind yet the mind is not the Alntan ; it is the Stekshnta Sarira the fine body made of fine particles which goes from birth to death and so on but behind the mind is the Aintan the Soul the Self of man It cannot be translated by the word Soul or Mind so we have to use the word Alman or as Western philosophers have attempted of late the