"My whole ambition in life is to set in motion machinery which will bring noble ideas to the door of everybody, and then let men and women settle their own fate.Let them know what our forefathers as well as other nations have thought on the most momentous questions of life. We are to put the chemicals together; the crystallization will be done by nature according to her laws. Keep the motto before you "ELEVATION OF THE MASSES WITHOUT INJURING THEIR RELIGION” - SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
CAN YOU DO ALL THIS ? OR ONLY BELL - RINGING ?
Come! Apply yourselves heart and soul to it. The day of gossip and ceremonials is gone, my boy, you must work now. . . . We must electrify society, electrify the world. Idle gossip and barren ceremonials won't do..
Onward! Onward! There is no time to care for name, or fame, or Mukti, or Bh...akti! We shall look to these some other time. Now in this life let us infinitely spread his lofty character, his sublime life, his infinite soul. This is the only work — there is nothing else to do. Wherever his name will reach, the veriest worm will attain divinity, nay, is actually attaining it; you have got eyes, and don't you see it? Is it a child's play? Is it silly prattle? Is it foolery? " back. I cannot write any more. — Onward! I only tell you this, that whoever reads this letter will imbibe my spirit! Have faith! Onward!
- SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
(Summer?) 1894.
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