Off with your ideas of Mukti and Bhakti!
There is only one way in the world, "परोपकाराय हि सतां जीवितं", "परार्थे प्राज्ञ उत्सृजेत्"--"The good live for others alone", "The wise man should sacrifice himself for others".
I can secure my own good only by doing you good. There is no other way, none whatsoever. . . .
You are God, I am God, and man is God. It is this God manifested through humanity who is doing everything in this world. Is there a different God sitting high up somewhere?
To work, therefore!
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Swami Brahmananda (1895)
There is only one way in the world, "परोपकाराय हि सतां जीवितं", "परार्थे प्राज्ञ उत्सृजेत्"--"The good live for others alone", "The wise man should sacrifice himself for others".
I can secure my own good only by doing you good. There is no other way, none whatsoever. . . .
You are God, I am God, and man is God. It is this God manifested through humanity who is doing everything in this world. Is there a different God sitting high up somewhere?
To work, therefore!
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Swami Brahmananda (1895)
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