The only sign of life is going outward and forward and expansion. Contraction is death.
Why should you do good to others? Because that is the only condition of life; thereby you expand beyond your little self; you live and grow.
All narrowness, all contraction, all selfishness is simply slow suicide, and when a nation commits the fatal mistake of contracting itself and of thus cutting off all expansion and life, it must die.
Women similarly must go forward or become idiots and soulless tools in the hands of their tyrannical lords. The children are the result of the combination of the tyrant and the idiot, and they are slaves.
And this is the whole history of modern India.
Oh, who would break this horrible crystallisation of death? Lord help us!
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Manmatha Bhattaharya
from USA (September 1894)
Why should you do good to others? Because that is the only condition of life; thereby you expand beyond your little self; you live and grow.
All narrowness, all contraction, all selfishness is simply slow suicide, and when a nation commits the fatal mistake of contracting itself and of thus cutting off all expansion and life, it must die.
Women similarly must go forward or become idiots and soulless tools in the hands of their tyrannical lords. The children are the result of the combination of the tyrant and the idiot, and they are slaves.
And this is the whole history of modern India.
Oh, who would break this horrible crystallisation of death? Lord help us!
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Manmatha Bhattaharya
from USA (September 1894)
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