The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XII Sir
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(Translated from Bengali)
BARANAGORE, CALCUTTA,
13th Dec., 1889.
DEAR SIR,
I have all particulars from your letter; and from Rakhal's which followed, I
came to know of your meeting. I have received the pamphlet written by you. A
kind of scientific Advaitism has been spreading in Europe ever since the
theory of the conservation of energy was discovered, but all that is
Parinâmavâda, evolution by real modification. It is good you have shown the
difference between this and Shankara's Vivartavâda (progressive
manifestation by unreal superimposition). I can't appreciate your citing
Spencer's parody on the German transcendentalists; he himself is fed much on
their doles. It is doubtful whether your opponent Gough understands his
Hegel sufficiently. Anyway, your rejoinder is very pointed and thrashing.
Yours etc.,
VIVEKANANDA.