… as far back as the days of the Upanishads we have thrown the challenge to the world:
न प्रजया धनेन त्यागेनैके अमृतत्वमानाशु: --"Not by progeny, not by wealth, but by renunciation alone immortality is reached."
Race after race has taken the challenge up and tried their utmost to solve the world-riddle on the plane of desires.
They have all failed in the past -- the old ones have become extinct under the weight of wickedness and misery, which lust for power and gold brings in its train, and the new ones are tottering to their fall.
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘India’s Message to the World’
न प्रजया धनेन त्यागेनैके अमृतत्वमानाशु: --"Not by progeny, not by wealth, but by renunciation alone immortality is reached."
Race after race has taken the challenge up and tried their utmost to solve the world-riddle on the plane of desires.
They have all failed in the past -- the old ones have become extinct under the weight of wickedness and misery, which lust for power and gold brings in its train, and the new ones are tottering to their fall.
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘India’s Message to the World’
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