The Yogi says you are to go to the root of all this.
Why is there misery in the world?
He answers: "It is all our own foolishness, not having proper mastery of our own bodies. That is all." …
If you can thus get mastery of your body, all the misery of the world will vanish.
Every hospital is praying that more and more sick people will come there. Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O Lord, let the world be full of charitable people!"-- you mean, let the world be full of beggars also. Let the world be full of good works -- let the world be full of misery.
This is out-and-out slavishness!
- Swami Vivekananda, Talk in San Francisco
Why is there misery in the world?
He answers: "It is all our own foolishness, not having proper mastery of our own bodies. That is all." …
If you can thus get mastery of your body, all the misery of the world will vanish.
Every hospital is praying that more and more sick people will come there. Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O Lord, let the world be full of charitable people!"-- you mean, let the world be full of beggars also. Let the world be full of good works -- let the world be full of misery.
This is out-and-out slavishness!
- Swami Vivekananda, Talk in San Francisco
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