The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too. This mixture of life and death, good and evil, knowledge and ignorance is what is called Maya -- or the universal phenomenon.
You may go on for eternity inside this net, seeking for happiness -- you find much, and much evil too.
To have good and no evil is childish nonsense.
Two ways are left open -- one by giving up all hope to take up the world as it is and bear the pangs and pains in the hope of a crumb of happiness now and then.
The other, to give up the search for pleasure, knowing it to be pain in another form, and seek for truth -- and those that dare try for truth succeed in finding that truth as ever present -- present in themselves.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Mary Hale
from London (November 1896)
You may go on for eternity inside this net, seeking for happiness -- you find much, and much evil too.
To have good and no evil is childish nonsense.
Two ways are left open -- one by giving up all hope to take up the world as it is and bear the pangs and pains in the hope of a crumb of happiness now and then.
The other, to give up the search for pleasure, knowing it to be pain in another form, and seek for truth -- and those that dare try for truth succeed in finding that truth as ever present -- present in themselves.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Mary Hale
from London (November 1896)
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