The formation of society, the institution of marriage, the love for children, our good works, morality, and ethics are all different forms of renunciation.
All our lives in every society are the subjection of the will, the thirst, the desire. This surrender of the will or the fictitious self -- or the desire to jump out of ourselves, as it were -- the struggle still to objectify the subject -- is the one phenomenon in this world of which all societies and social forms are various modes and stages.
Love is the easiest and smoothest way towards the self-surrender or subjection of the will, and hatred, the opposite.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Mary Hale
from London (November 1896)
All our lives in every society are the subjection of the will, the thirst, the desire. This surrender of the will or the fictitious self -- or the desire to jump out of ourselves, as it were -- the struggle still to objectify the subject -- is the one phenomenon in this world of which all societies and social forms are various modes and stages.
Love is the easiest and smoothest way towards the self-surrender or subjection of the will, and hatred, the opposite.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Mary Hale
from London (November 1896)
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