Friday, June 8, 2018
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Solid Ground to Stand Upon
This is, therefore, true knowledge; that the Soul of our souls, the Reality that is within us, is That which is unchangeable, eternal, ever-blessed, ever-free.
This is the only solid ground for us to stand upon.
This, then, is the end of all death, the advent of all immortality, the end of all misery.
And he who sees that One among the many, that One unchangeable in the universe of change, he who sees Him as the Soul of his soul, unto him belongs eternal peace -- unto none else.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Talk in Los Angles, California
This is the only solid ground for us to stand upon.
This, then, is the end of all death, the advent of all immortality, the end of all misery.
And he who sees that One among the many, that One unchangeable in the universe of change, he who sees Him as the Soul of his soul, unto him belongs eternal peace -- unto none else.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Talk in Los Angles, California
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Walking in Dreams
We seem to be walking in dreams.
Dreams are all right in a dream-mind; but as soon as you want to grasp one of them, it is gone.
Why? Not that it was false, but because it is beyond the power of reason, the power of the intellect to comprehend it.
Everything in this life is so vast that the intellect is nothing in comparison with it. It refuses to be bound by the laws of the intellect! It laughs at the bondage the intellect wants to spread around it.
And a thousandfold more so is this the case with the human soul.
"We ourselves"-- this is the greatest mystery of the universe.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Talk in Los Angles, California
Dreams are all right in a dream-mind; but as soon as you want to grasp one of them, it is gone.
Why? Not that it was false, but because it is beyond the power of reason, the power of the intellect to comprehend it.
Everything in this life is so vast that the intellect is nothing in comparison with it. It refuses to be bound by the laws of the intellect! It laughs at the bondage the intellect wants to spread around it.
And a thousandfold more so is this the case with the human soul.
"We ourselves"-- this is the greatest mystery of the universe.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Talk in Los Angles, California
Monday, June 4, 2018
Sunday, June 3, 2018
My Ideal of a Perfect Man and Religion
Would to God that all men were so constituted that in their minds all these elements of philosophy, mysticism, emotion, and of work were equally present in full!
That is the ideal, my ideal of a perfect man.
Everyone who has only one or two of these elements of character, I consider "one-sided"; and this world is almost full of such "one-sided" men, with knowledge of that one road only in which they move; and anything else is dangerous and horrible to them.
To become harmoniously balanced in all these four directions is my ideal of religion.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Talk in Pasadena, California
That is the ideal, my ideal of a perfect man.
Everyone who has only one or two of these elements of character, I consider "one-sided"; and this world is almost full of such "one-sided" men, with knowledge of that one road only in which they move; and anything else is dangerous and horrible to them.
To become harmoniously balanced in all these four directions is my ideal of religion.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Talk in Pasadena, California
Saturday, June 2, 2018
Friday, June 1, 2018
Truth is Nobody's Property
All truth is eternal.
Truth is nobody's property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it.
Truth is the nature of all souls. Who can lay any special claim to it?
But it has to be made practical, to be made simple (for the highest truths are always simple), so that it may penetrate every pore of human society, and become the property of the highest intellects and the commonest minds, of the man, woman, and child at the same time.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Practical Vedanta IV, London
Truth is nobody's property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it.
Truth is the nature of all souls. Who can lay any special claim to it?
But it has to be made practical, to be made simple (for the highest truths are always simple), so that it may penetrate every pore of human society, and become the property of the highest intellects and the commonest minds, of the man, woman, and child at the same time.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Practical Vedanta IV, London
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