Friday, November 6, 2009
TRUE KNOWLEDGE
My Master used to say, "All is God, but tiger-God is to be shunned. All water is water, but we avoid dirty water for drinking." Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 25, 1895. Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 7.13.
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
CALM AND COMPOSED
Children finding glass beads in a mud puddle, that is the good of the world. Look at it with calm complacency. See good and evil as the same--both are merely "God's play." Enjoy all. Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 25, 1895. Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 7.13.
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
CAUSE AND EFFECT
Any work, any action, any thought that produces an effect is called karma. Thus the law of karma means the law of causation, of inevitable cause and sequence. Wherever there is a cause, there an effect must be produced. This necessity cannot be resisted. This law of karma, according to our...
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Friday, October 30, 2009
UP AND CLOSE
Death is only a change of condition. Time and space are in you; you are not in time and space. It is enough to know that as we make our lives purer and nobler, either in the seen or the unseen world, the nearer we approach God, who is the center of all spiritual beauty and eternal joy. Conversation...
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Monday, October 26, 2009
THE MIDDLE PATH
On the one hand there is the conservative society, like a mass of inert matter and,on the other, the restless, impatient, fire-darting reformer. The way to good lies between the two. Letter to Sarala Ghoshal, Editor of Bharati. Written from Darjeeling on April 6, 1897. Complete Works of Swami...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
IN SEARCH OF INDIVIDUALITY
We are not individuals now, in our present earthly environment. We shall not have reached individuality until we shall have ascended to the higher state, when the divine spirit within us will have a perfect medium for the expression of its attributes. Conversation at the Brooklyn Ethical Society,...
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
COMMON GOAL
"Fools alone say that work and philosophy are different, not the learned" (Gita, 5.4). The learned know that, though apparently different from each other, they at last lead to the same goal of human perfection. Class on Karma Yoga. New York, January 3, 1896. Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda,...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
A NECESSITY
Religion is a constitutional necessity of the human mind. The proof of one religion depends on the proof of all the rest. For instance, if I have six fingers, and no one else has, you may well say that is abnormal. The same reasoning may be applied to the argument that only one religion is true and...
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ETERNAL BLISS
Good and evil are our slaves, not we theirs. It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is and not make progress. It is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil. It is the nature of God to seek neither but just be eternally blissful. Let us be God! Retreat given at the Thousand Island...
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Monday, October 12, 2009
DIVINE MUSIC
Music is the highest art and, to those who understand, is the highest worship. Letter to an American lady. From London: December 13, 1896. Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 5.125.
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