I who am beyond all pleasure and pain, whose reflection is the whole universe, little bits of whose life are the suns and moons and stars -- i am held down as a terrible slave!
If you pinch my body, I feel pain.
If one says a kind word, I begin to rejoice.
See my condition -- slave of the body, slave of the mind, slave of the world, slave of a good word, slave of a bad word, slave of passion, slave of happiness, slave of life, slave of death, slave of everything!
This slavery has to be broken. How?
"This Atman has first to be heard, then reasoned upon, and then meditated upon."
- Swami Vivekananda,
Talk in New-York
If you pinch my body, I feel pain.
If one says a kind word, I begin to rejoice.
See my condition -- slave of the body, slave of the mind, slave of the world, slave of a good word, slave of a bad word, slave of passion, slave of happiness, slave of life, slave of death, slave of everything!
This slavery has to be broken. How?
"This Atman has first to be heard, then reasoned upon, and then meditated upon."
- Swami Vivekananda,
Talk in New-York
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