The person who aspires to be a Bhakta must be cheerful.
In the Western world the idea of a religious man is that he never smiles, that a dark cloud must always hang over his face, which, again, must be long-drawn with the jaws almost collapsed.
People with emaciated bodies and long faces are fit subjects for the physician, they are not Yogis.
It is the cheerful mind that is persevering. It is the strong mind that hews its way through a thousand difficulties.
And this, the hardest task of all, the cutting of our way out of the net of Maya, is the work reserved only for giant wills.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Bhakti-Yoga
In the Western world the idea of a religious man is that he never smiles, that a dark cloud must always hang over his face, which, again, must be long-drawn with the jaws almost collapsed.
People with emaciated bodies and long faces are fit subjects for the physician, they are not Yogis.
It is the cheerful mind that is persevering. It is the strong mind that hews its way through a thousand difficulties.
And this, the hardest task of all, the cutting of our way out of the net of Maya, is the work reserved only for giant wills.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Bhakti-Yoga
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