Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s9.t8.6

v1.c7.s9.t8.6

While explaining the material world, Vivekananda also changed the view of Vedanta and proposed a lot of materialistic viewpoints by absorbing a lot of contents of materialism and natural science from Western philosophy. He believed that the world composed of constantly changing matter, things differing in thousands of ways were all manifestations of matter. The whole universe was like an ocean of matter, all matters were in the state of flowing changes. Matter constantly developed and changed, nothing was immutable, and kept on condensing or dispersing forever. He also emphasised that the changes of all things in nature followed laws and moved in accordance with its own laws, there was no exception. This view of Vivekananda broke the negation of the material world of ancient Vedanta, changed the direction of traditional Vedanta and manifested the features of new Vedanta philosophy.