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“If a man sees no other (besides Himself), hears no other, knows no other, that is infinite; if he sees, hears, knows another, that is the finite. The infinite is the immortal, the finite is mortal." (Chhandogya Upanishad, Chap. VII. 24).
To a man immersed in the world of senses all this is and must ever remain to be as great an absurdity as the notion that the moon is made of green cheese. He should wait patiently till the Divine in him quickens him from within, and in the meanwhile he cannot do better than assume the attitude of the great rishi Narada* who, in spite of having read all the Vedas, and almost all other material sciences, declared that he did not possess the knowledge of the Real, and actually sought out Sanatakumara to learn it from him. He will also do well to remember that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and that to deny, merely on the strength of learning derived from sciences whose range does not extend beyond matter, the teaching of religion and the sanity of its founders is to play with sharp-edged tools.
To proceed with our investigation. The history of the ancestor is the history of the individual, and the so-called sin of Adam is repeated by each and every one of us. It is not true to say that the ire of an Omnipotent Almighty God was excited and kindled by Adam's eating of a fruit to such an extent that he not only punished the guilty, but also their whole progeny ad infinitum. The fathers have eaten the sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge, not because a just and merciful God decreed it that way, but because
* The legend is valuable only as suggesting the true attitude of enquiry; it is not intended to be read as a narrative of facts.
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