Tuesday, September 13, 2011

WE MUST LOOK WITH PERFECT CALMNESS UPON ALL THE PANORAMA OF THE WORLD - STAND STAND UPON THE ATMAN



Stand upon the Self, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing out universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world. It is but baby's play, and we know that, so cannot be disturbed by it. If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame. All pleasures of the senses or even of the mind are evanescent but within ourselves is the one true unrelated pleasure, dependent upon nothing. It is perfectly free, it is bliss. The more our bliss is within, the more spiritual we are. The pleasure of the Self is what the world calls religion.

- Swami Vivekananda
TUESDAY, June 25, 1895
(RECORDED BY MISS S. E. WALDO, A DISCIPLE)

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