Mananam

The following is a list of remarks Sri Swami Vivekananda made on Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy. Source: ramakrishnavivekananda.info 1. Talk: The Absolute and Manifestation - Delivered in London 1896 .............. We have to understand this, and impress it on our minds, that what we call causation begins after, if we may be permitted  to say so, the degeneration of the Absolute into the phenomenal, and not before; that our will, our desire and all these things always come  after  that. I think Schopenhauer's philosophy makes a mistake in its interpretation of Vedanta, for it seeks to make the will everything. Schopenhauer makes the will stand in the place of the Absolute. But the absolute cannot be presented as will, for will is something changeable and phenomenal, and over the line, drawn above time, space, and causation, there is no change, no motion; it is only below the line that external motion and internal motion, called thought begin. There can be no wi...

THE VEDANTA IN ALL ITS PHASES ( Delivered in Calcutta ) Source:  https://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_3/lectures_from_colombo_to_almora/the_vedanta_in_all_its_phases.htm ................ Here again is another great difference. Just as you find the attempts of Hegel and Schopenhauer in German philosophy, so you will find the very same ideas brought forward in ancient India. Fortunately for us, Hegelianism was nipped in the bud and not allowed to sprout and cast its baneful shoots over this motherland of ours. Hegel's one idea is that the one, the absolute, is only chaos, and that the individualized form is the greater. The world is greater than the non-world, Samsâra is greater than salvation. That is the one idea, and the more you plunge into this Samsara the more your soul is covered with the  workings of life, the better you are. They say, do you not see how we build houses, cleanse the streets, enjoy the senses?  On the other hand...