Saturday, September 28, 2019

To Work, therefore!

Off with your ideas of Mukti and Bhakti! 
There is only one way in the world, "परोपकाराय हि सतां जीवितं", "परार्थे प्राज्ञ उत्सृजेत्"--"The good live for others alone", "The wise man should sacrifice himself for others". 
I can secure my own good only by doing you good. There is no other way, none whatsoever. . . . 

You are God, I am God, and man is God. It is this God manifested through humanity who is doing everything in this world. Is there a different God sitting high up somewhere? 

To work, therefore!

                  - Swami Vivekananda, 
                    in a Letter to Swami Brahmananda (1895)

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