" You may have build two thousand hospitals, built fifty thousand roads, yet what of that, if you have have realized that you are the SPIRIT ? You die a dog's death, with the same feelings that the dog does. The dog howls and weeps because he knows that he is only matter and he is going to be dissolved. "
...There is death, you know, inevitable death, in water, in air, in the palace, in the prison - death everywhere. WHAT MAKES YOU FEARLESS ? When you have realised what you are — that infinite spirit, deathless, birthless. Him no fire can burn, no instrument kill, no poison hurt.
- Swami Vivekananda
Delivered at Alameda, California, on April 18, 1900
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