The barking of the dog awakens his master to guard against a thief or receive his dearest friend. It does not follow, therefore, that the dog and his master are of the same nature or have any degree of kinship.
The feelings of pleasure or pain similarly awaken the soul to activity, without any kinship at all.
The soul is beyond pain, beyond pleasure, sufficient in its own nature. And no hell can punish it, nor any heaven can bless it.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Mrs G W Hale
from Ridgly Manor (August 1899)
The feelings of pleasure or pain similarly awaken the soul to activity, without any kinship at all.
The soul is beyond pain, beyond pleasure, sufficient in its own nature. And no hell can punish it, nor any heaven can bless it.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Mrs G W Hale
from Ridgly Manor (August 1899)
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