Monday, September 19, 2011

HUMAN BEINGS, RATIONAL SOULS, SHOULD BE RUNNING AFTER THIS SELF - SO MEAN AND DESTESTABLE A PRIZE


 . . As for myself I am quite content. I have roused a good many of our people, and that was all I wanted. Let things have their course and Karma its sway. I have no bonds here below. I have seen life, and it is all self — life is for self, love for self, honour for self, everything for self. I look back and scarcely find any action I have done for self — even my wicked deeds were not for self. So I am content; not that I feel I have done anything specially good or great, but the world is so little, life so mean a thing, existence so, so servile — that I wonder and smile that human beings, rational souls, should be running after this self — so mean and detestable a prize.

- Swami Vivekananda
3rd June, 1897.The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/CXXVI Miss Noble

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