PH/2..We shall therefore expect to find, as we do find, that Vedantic Evolution and Monism are very different things from Evolution and Monism as European Science understands them. European thought seizes on Evolution as manifested in the outward facts of our little earth and follows it into its details with marvellous minuteness, accuracyand care. The Vedanta slurs over this part of the scheme witha brief acknowledgement, but divines the whole course of Evolution in the Universe and lays down with confident insight its largeraspects in the inward facts of the soul. In its Monism also Vedantais far more profound and searching than the European scientific observer,for while the latter is aware only of this gross material world and resolves everything into the monism of gross Matter, theVedanta, which is perfectly aware that gross matter can all be resolvedinto a single principle, does not pause at this discovery; it has pursued its investigations into two other worlds which surround and interpenetrate ours like two concentric but larger circles, the psychic or dream world of subtle Matter and the spiritual or sleep world of causal Matter, each with its own monistic unity; these three parallel monisms it resolves into a Supreme, Absolute and Transcendent Unity which is alone real and eternal. To the Indian consciousness at least these are no mere speculations; they are conclusions based on the actual experiences and observations of investigators who had themselves entered into these inner and yet wider worlds. The good faith of their observations cannot seriously be doubted and their accuracy can only be impugnedwhen Science itself consents to explore the same fields of being whether by the methods hitherto practised in the East or by any other adequate means of its own invention.
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