… get your mind to cling to Him [God] as far as you can. For then only the great magic of this world will break of itself.
But then, you must persevere. You must take off your mind from lust and lucre, must discriminate always between the real and the unreal -- must settle down into the mood of bodilessness with the brooding thought that you are not this body, and must always have the realisation that you are the all-pervading Atman.
This persevering practice is called Purushakara (self-exertion -- as distinguished from grace). By such self-exertion will come true reliance on Him, and that is the goal of human achievement.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Conversations and Dialogues,
recorded by Sharat Chandra Chakravarty
But then, you must persevere. You must take off your mind from lust and lucre, must discriminate always between the real and the unreal -- must settle down into the mood of bodilessness with the brooding thought that you are not this body, and must always have the realisation that you are the all-pervading Atman.
This persevering practice is called Purushakara (self-exertion -- as distinguished from grace). By such self-exertion will come true reliance on Him, and that is the goal of human achievement.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Conversations and Dialogues,
recorded by Sharat Chandra Chakravarty
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