I do not believe in humility. I believe in Samadarshitva -- same state of mind with regard to all.
The duty of the ordinary man is to obey the commands of his "God", society; but the children of light never do so.
This is an eternal law.
One accommodates himself to surroundings and social opinion and gets all good things from society, the giver of all good to such. The other stands alone and draws society up towards him. The accommodating man finds a path of roses; the non-accommodating, one of thorns.
But the worshippers of "Vox populi" go to annihilation in a moment; the children of truth live for ever.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Mary Hale
from New York (February 1895)
The duty of the ordinary man is to obey the commands of his "God", society; but the children of light never do so.
This is an eternal law.
One accommodates himself to surroundings and social opinion and gets all good things from society, the giver of all good to such. The other stands alone and draws society up towards him. The accommodating man finds a path of roses; the non-accommodating, one of thorns.
But the worshippers of "Vox populi" go to annihilation in a moment; the children of truth live for ever.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Mary Hale
from New York (February 1895)
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