People have been cajoled through various stories or superstitions of heavens and hells and Rulers above the sky, towards this one end of self-surrender.
The philosopher does the same knowingly without superstition, by giving up desires.
An objective heaven or millennium therefore has existence only in the fancy -- but a subjective one is already in existence. The musk-deer, after vain search for the cause of the scent of the musk, at last will have to find it in himself.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Mary Hale
from London (November 1896)
The philosopher does the same knowingly without superstition, by giving up desires.
An objective heaven or millennium therefore has existence only in the fancy -- but a subjective one is already in existence. The musk-deer, after vain search for the cause of the scent of the musk, at last will have to find it in himself.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Mary Hale
from London (November 1896)
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