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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Friday, October 9, 2009
BORN FREE
The child rebels against law as soon as it is born. Its first utterance is a cry, a protest against the bondage in which it finds itself. This longing for freedom produces the idea of a Being who is absolutely free. The concept of God is a fundamental element in the human constitution. SWAMI...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
WILL POWER
No one was ever really taught by another. Each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion which rouses the internal teacher to work to understand things. Then things will be made clearer to us by our own power of perception and thought, and we shall realize them in...
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
BACK TO CHRIST
Better be ready to live in rags with Christ than to live in palaces without him. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
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Monday, September 28, 2009
DIVINE NATURE
If there is ever to be a universal religion...It will be a religion which will have no place for persecution or intolerance in its polity, which will recognise divinity in every man and woman, and whose whole scope, whose whole force, will be created in aiding humanity to realise its own true,...
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