Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Through Renunciation is the Way

Ours is the true religion because it teaches that God alone is true, that this world is false and fleeting, that all your gold is but as dust, that all your power is finite, and that life itself is oftentimes an evil; therefore it is, that ours is the true religion. 

Ours is the true religion because, above all, it teaches renunciation and stands up with the wisdom of ages to tell and to declare to the nations who are mere children of yesterday in comparison with us 
Hindus -- who own the hoary antiquity of the wisdom, discovered by our ancestors here in India -- 
to tell them in plain words: 
"Children, you are slaves of the senses; there is only finiteness in the senses, there is only ruination in the senses; the three short days of luxury here bring only ruin at last. Give it all up, renounce the love of the senses and of the world; that is the way of religion." 

Through renunciation is the way to the goal and not through enjoyment. Therefore ours is the only true religion. 

                - Swami Vivekananda, Address at Kumbakonam, 
                 Lectures From Colombo to Almora


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