This world is like a dog's curly tail, and people have been striving to straighten it out for hundreds of years; but when they let it go, it has curled up again.
How could it be otherwise?
One must first know how to work without attachment, then one will not be a fanatic.
When we know that this world is like a dog's curly tail and will never get straightened, we shall not become fanatics. …
… When you have avoided fanaticism, then alone will you work well.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
The fanatic is foolish and has no sympathy; he can never straighten the world, nor himself become pure and perfect.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Karma-Yoga (Classes in New York)
How could it be otherwise?
One must first know how to work without attachment, then one will not be a fanatic.
When we know that this world is like a dog's curly tail and will never get straightened, we shall not become fanatics. …
… When you have avoided fanaticism, then alone will you work well.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
The fanatic is foolish and has no sympathy; he can never straighten the world, nor himself become pure and perfect.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Karma-Yoga (Classes in New York)
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