So long as there is selfishness in the heart, so long is love of God impossible; it is nothing but shopkeeping:
"I give you something; O Lord, you give me something in return"; and says the Lord, "If you do not do this, I will take good care of you when you die. I will roast you all the rest of your lives, perhaps", and so on.
So long as such ideas are in the brain, how can one understand the mad throes of the Gopis' love? … …
Ay, forget first the love for gold, and name and fame, for this little trumpery world of ours. Then, only then, you will understand the love of the Gopis, too holy to be attempted without giving up everything, too sacred to be understood until the soul has become perfectly pure.
People with ideas of sex, and of money, and of fame, bubbling up every minute in the heart, daring to criticise and understand the love of the Gopis!
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Madras,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
"I give you something; O Lord, you give me something in return"; and says the Lord, "If you do not do this, I will take good care of you when you die. I will roast you all the rest of your lives, perhaps", and so on.
So long as such ideas are in the brain, how can one understand the mad throes of the Gopis' love? … …
Ay, forget first the love for gold, and name and fame, for this little trumpery world of ours. Then, only then, you will understand the love of the Gopis, too holy to be attempted without giving up everything, too sacred to be understood until the soul has become perfectly pure.
People with ideas of sex, and of money, and of fame, bubbling up every minute in the heart, daring to criticise and understand the love of the Gopis!
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Madras,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
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