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ticles still finer, we require still more fine ethereal particles to fill up the vacuum between every two of them, and so on.
Thus the theory of ether, or material particles in space, though accounting for the phenomena in space, cannot account for space itself.
And thus we are forced to find that the ether which comprehends the molecules explains the molecular phenomena, but itself cannot explain space because we cannot but think of ether as in space. And, therefore, if there is anything which will explain this space, it must be something that comprehends in its infinite being the infinite space itself. And what is there that can comprehend even the infinite space but the Infinite Mind?
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[An undated and untitled, one‑page manuscript in Swami Vivekananda's own handwriting]
My nerves act on my brain__the brain sends back a reaction which, on the mental side, is this world.
Something__x__acts on the brain through the nerves, the reaction is this world.
Why not the x be also in the body__why outside?
Because we find the already created outside world (as the result of a previous reaction of the brain) acts on us calling on a further reaction.
Thus inside becomes outside and creates another action, which interior action created another reaction, which again becomes outside and again acts inside.
The only way of reconciling idealism and realism is to hold that one brain can be affected by the world created as reaction by another brain from inside, i.e., the mixture x + mind which one brain throws out can affect another, to which it's similarly external.
Therefore as soon as we come within the influence of this hypnotic circle, or influence, created by hundreds of preceding brains we begin to feel this world as they see it.
1 New Discoveries, Vol. 3, pp. 440‑41.