Mankind generally thinks that everything is to be expected from the teacher.
Very few people understand that they are not fit to be taught.
In the disciple first this is necessary: that he must want--he must really want spirituality.
We want everything but spirituality.
What is meant by want? Just as we want food. Luxuries are not wants, but necessaries are wants. Religion is a necessary thing to very few; and to the vast mass of mankind it is a luxury.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Class-Talk in New York,
(January 20, 1896)
Very few people understand that they are not fit to be taught.
In the disciple first this is necessary: that he must want--he must really want spirituality.
We want everything but spirituality.
What is meant by want? Just as we want food. Luxuries are not wants, but necessaries are wants. Religion is a necessary thing to very few; and to the vast mass of mankind it is a luxury.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Class-Talk in New York,
(January 20, 1896)
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