Volume 2 : Lights on the Teachings (2), Lights on the Ancients (2), Lights on the Fundamentals, Flame of White Light, The way of the Light
Volume 2 includes multiple books : Lights on the Teachings (2), Lights on the Ancients (2), Lights on the Fundamentals, Flame of White Light, The way of the Light.
It is true that the scientist's theory of existence differs from and is often opposed to the teachings of a spiritual man or of a religious reformer, of a yogin. The reason is plain, for the view of existence taken by the scientist is different from that of the man of spiritual experience; and this difference is bound to be there as long as the scientist relies upon the data of the senses for his conclusions and the spiritual man's view-point proceeds from the experienced heights and depths of being. If Darwin's theory and Buddha's teachings are far apart from each other as London and Tokyo, the reason is obvious that the great naturalist's God was Nature, this magnificent material existence of which we become aware through the senses; while to the great teacher of renunciation, the Truth, the Ideal was Nirvana, a state of being,—(a state of non-being, perhaps)—which overlooks all existence and therefore transcends the ephemeral flow of thought and things.
1933
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