It is a weakness to think that anyone is dependent on me, and that I can do good to another.
This belief is the mother of all our attachment, and through this attachment comes all our pain.
We must inform our minds that no one in this universe depends upon us; not one beggar depends on our charity;
not one soul on our kindness; not one living thing on our help.
All are helped on by nature, and will be so helped even though millions of us were not here. The course of nature will not stop for such as you and me; it is, as already pointed out, only a blessed privilege to you and to me that we are allowed, in the way of helping others, to educate ourselves.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Karma-Yoga (Classes in New York)
This belief is the mother of all our attachment, and through this attachment comes all our pain.
We must inform our minds that no one in this universe depends upon us; not one beggar depends on our charity;
not one soul on our kindness; not one living thing on our help.
All are helped on by nature, and will be so helped even though millions of us were not here. The course of nature will not stop for such as you and me; it is, as already pointed out, only a blessed privilege to you and to me that we are allowed, in the way of helping others, to educate ourselves.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Karma-Yoga (Classes in New York)
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