Such is the career of men pursuing the vanities of life, children dreaming golden dreams only to find that they are but vain, and old men chewing the cud of their past deeds, and yet not knowing how to get out of this network.
This is the world.
Yet in the life of every one there come golden moments; in the midst of the deepest sorrows, nay, of the deepest joys, there come moments when a part of the cloud that hides the sunlight moves away as it were, and we catch a glimpse, in spite of ourselves of something beyond --
away, away beyond the life of the senses;
away, away beyond its vanities, its joys, and its sorrows;
away, away beyond nature, or our imaginations of
happiness here or hereafter;
away beyond all thirst for gold, or for fame, or for name,
or for posterity.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Madras,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
This is the world.
Yet in the life of every one there come golden moments; in the midst of the deepest sorrows, nay, of the deepest joys, there come moments when a part of the cloud that hides the sunlight moves away as it were, and we catch a glimpse, in spite of ourselves of something beyond --
away, away beyond the life of the senses;
away, away beyond its vanities, its joys, and its sorrows;
away, away beyond nature, or our imaginations of
happiness here or hereafter;
away beyond all thirst for gold, or for fame, or for name,
or for posterity.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Madras,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
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