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"The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel".
Dedicatòria
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"The Background, the Reality, of everyone is that same Eternal, Ever Blessed, Ever Pure, and Ever Perfect One".
Chapter Topics: Atman or the Self, Bhakti or the Love of God, Brahman or the Supreme, Reality, Buddha, Buddhism, Christ, Christianity, Concentration, Duty, Education, Ethics, Faith, Food, Freedom and Mukti (Salvation), Gita, God,
Citacions
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1) "...Obey the scriptures until you are strong enough to do without them..."
2) "The Godhead, being a unity, is experienced as a sort of Void, in contrast to the multiplicity of objects which make up our ordinary sense consciousness. Within that Void, personal identity is lost - and loss of identity must necessarily seem, to those who are not prepared for it, like death."
3) "He doubted greatly because he was capable of believing greatly."
4) "On 15th August 1886, Ramakrishna uttered the name of Kali in a clear ringing voice and passed into the final Samadhi. At noon the next day, the doctor pronounced him dead."
5) "I am glad I was born, glad I suffered so, glad I did make big blunders, glad to enter peace. Whether this body will fall and release me or I enter into freedom in the body, the old man is gone, gone forever, never to come back again! Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear. Now they are vanishing and I drift."
6) Some say that Vivekananda's departure from this life, on 4th July 1902, at Belur Math, had the appearance of a premeditated act. For several months previously, he had been releasing himself from his various responsibilities, and training successors. His health was better. He ate his midday meal with relish, talked philosophy and went for a two-mile walk. In the evening, he passed into deep meditation, and the heart stopped beating. For hours they tried to rouse him. But his work, it seemed, was done and Ramakrishna had given him back the key to the treasure."
7) "...he was supremely indifferent if his words of today seemed to contradict those of yesterday. As a man of enlightenment, he knew that the truth is never contained in arrangements of sentences. It is within the speaker himself. If what he is is true, then words are unimportant. In this sense, Vivekananda is incapable of self-contradiction."
8) "The policy of the Ramakrishna Order has always been faithful to Vivekananda's intention. In the early twenties, when India's struggle with England had become intense and bitter, the Order was harshly criticised for refusing to allow its members to take part in Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement. But Gandhi himself never joined in this criticism. He understood perfectly that a religious body which supports a political cause - no matter how noble and just - can only compromise itself spiritually and thereby lose that very authority which is its justification for existence within human society. In 1921 Gandhi came to the Belur Math on the anniversary of Vivekananda's birthday and paid a moving tribute to him. The Swami's writings, Gandhi said, had taught him to love India even more. He reverently visited the room overlooking the Ganga in which Vivekananda spent the last months of his life. You can visit that room today; it is still kept exactly as Vivekananda left it. But it does not seem museum-like or even unoccupied. Right next to it is the room which is used by the President of the Ramakrishna Order. There they are, dwelling side by side, the visible human authority and the invisible inspiring presence. In the life of the Belur Math, Vivekananda still lives and is as much a participant in its daily activities as any of its monks."
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"It is a life's work; and the end to be attained is well worth all that it can cost us to reach it, being nothing less than the realization of our absolute oneness with the Divine".