Vivecante says that in the most primitive of religions, we have these deities. Theyr personified ideas of our freedom? I am subject to death, disease and hunger. Here is a god who is free of these thingsbu ful, perfect, immortal. As religion advanced, we came to the idea of one ultimate reality beyond maya. This is the god of the monotheistic religions - spinoza's god. And us, sentient beings, we are parts of the divine. It is vishista dwita qualified monism. If we see einstein poem on spinoza, we're full of he says, this, this holy man.
Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a discourse on the nature of Maya (Ignorance). This lecture is part of a series of talks inspired by Swami Vivekananda's Jnana Yoga.