Saturday, February 8, 2020

Idea of Freedom

God is pure, the same to all. Therefore such a sage [God-Realised Sage] would be a living God. This is the goal towards which we are going; and every form of worship, every action of mankind, is a method of attaining to it. 

The man who wants money is striving for freedom -- to get rid of the bondage of poverty. Every action of man is worship, because the idea is to attain to freedom, and all action, directly or indirectly, tends to that. 

Only, those actions that deter are to be avoided. The whole universe is worshipping, consciously or unconsciously; …  

                  - Swami Vivekananda, 
                    Law and Freedom, 
                    Notes from Lectures and Discourses



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