LIVING IN TRUTH

" If you remember what I say, think of it, and digest it, it will be yours, it will raise you higher, and make you capable of understanding and living in truth "

- Swami Vivekananda

THEN THE SOUL COMES OUT AS A GIANT AND LAUGHS AT THE IDEAL HE HAS BEEN STRUGGLING FOR.....

It is not truth, but development, that is the great aim. The struggle is the great lesson. Mind you, the great benefit in this life is struggle. It is through that we pass. If there is any road to Heaven, it is through Hell. Through Hell to Heaven is always the way. When the soul has wrestled with circumstance and has met death, a thousand times death on the way, but nothing daunted has struggled forward again and again and yet again—then the soul comes out as a giant and laughs at the ideal he has been struggling for, because he finds how much greater is he than the ideal. I am the end, my own Self, and nothing else…

- Swami Vivekananda

GIVE ME GENUINE MAN; I DO NOT WANT MASSES OF CONVERTS. MY SON, HOLD FAST!

Onward! Upon ages of struggle a character is built. Be not discouraged. One word of truth can never be lost; for ages it may be hidden under rubbish, but it will show itself sooner or later. Truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible. Give me a genuine man; I do not want masses of converts. My son, hold fast! Do not care for anybody to help you. Is not the Lord infinitely greater than all human help? Be holy—trust in the Lord, depend on Him always, and you are on the right track; nothing can prevail against you.¹⁰

- Swami Vivekananda

NATURE - IF YOU DO NOT CARE FOR HER AT ALL, SHE BECOMES YOUR SLAVE

The more you fly from nature, the more she follows you; and if you do not care for her at all, she becomes your slave.
(Raja Yoga: Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms. Chapter II - Concentration: Its practice)

He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.
(Raja Yoga: Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms. Chapter II - Concentration: Its practice)
- Swami Vivekananda

WORK, WORK, WORK - I CARE FOR NOTHING ELSE. WORK, WORK, WORK, EVEN UNTO DEATH!!!

It is that sort of work which can conquer the world. What do differences of sect and opinion matter? Bravo! Accept a hundred thousand embraces and blessings from me. Work, work, work — I care for nothing else. Work, work, work, even unto death! Those that are weak must make themselves great workers, great heroes — never mind money, it will drop from the heavens.

Yours with all love,
VIVEKANANDA.
15th June, 1897.

WE WANT GREAT SPIRIT, TREMENDOUS ENERGY, AND BOUNDLESS ENTHUSIASM, NO WOMANISHNESS WILL DO.

We want great spirit, tremendous energy, and boundless enthusiasm, no womanishness will do. Try to go on exactly as I wrote to you in my last. We want organisation. Organisation is power, and the secret of this is obedience.

Yours affectionately,
VIVEKANANDA.
63 ST. GEORGE'S ROAD, LONDON S.W.,
24th June, 1896.

THESE PEOPLE WILL GO ON THE NEGATIVE, TILL THEY ARE ACTUALLY REDUCTED TO NOTHING

It won't do merely to sit idle. You have done a heroic deed! Bravo! Those who falter and vacillate will lag behind, and you will jump straight on top of all! Those that are working for their own salvation will neither have their own nor that of others. Let the commotion that you make be such as to resound to the world's end. There are people who are ready to pick holes in everything, but when it comes to the question of work, not a scent of them can be had! To work! — as far as in you lies! Then I shall go to India and move the whole country. What fear! "Even a snake loses its venom if it is insisted that it has none." These people will go on the negative track, till they are actually reduced to nothing! . . .

- Swami Vivekananda
Jan., 1896.
 The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XCI Sarada