Saturday, September 3, 2011

FOR WOULD YOU PRAISE YOUR SERVANT FOR SIMPLY DOING HIS DUTY ?




" Your letter has reached me duly. I do not know why I should be undeservingly praised. "None is good, save One, that is, God", as the Lord Jesus bath said. The rest are only tools in His hands. "Gloria in Excelsis", "Glory unto God in the highest", and unto men that deserve, but not to such an undeserving one like me. Here "the servant is not worthy of the hire"; and a Fakir, especially, has no right to any praise whatsoever, for would you praise your servant for simply doing his duty?"

- Swami Vivekananda
Bombay, 20th September, 1892.

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