Saturday, November 19, 2011

THE GOOD LIVE FOR OTHERS ALONE - THE WISE MAN SHOULD SACRIFICE HIMSELF FOR OTHERS


 Well, I cannot tell you all — if I could but get another demon like me! The Lord will supply me everything in time.... If one has got power, one must manifest it in action. ... Off with your ideas of Mukti and Bhakti! There is only one way in the world,

"The good live for others alone", "The wise man should sacrif...ice himself for others". I can secure my own good only by doing you good. There is no other way, none whatsoever.... You are God, I am God, and man is God. It is this God manifested through humanity who is doing everything in this world. Is there a different God sitting high up somewhere? To work, therefore!

- Swami Vivekananda
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/LXXI Rakhal, 1895.

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