| “We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.” Author - Swami Vivekananda “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” Author - Swami Vivekananda “The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.” Author - Swami Vivekananda |
Friday, May 14, 2010
Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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ReplyDeleteIn his letter dated the 2nd September 1901 addressed to Christine, he showed his attachment to SHAD FISH (a species of fish swimming upstream from sea to a river for spawning, found in the Hooghly river flowing beside the Belur Monastery).
"...How I wish you were here to taste our SHADS — one of the most delicate fish in the world. ... I would not take any supper tonight, as I ate rather heartily of the aforesaid shad! ... "
This is our best season for eating turtles, but they are all black. The green [ones] can only be found in America. Alas! I am prevented from the taste of meat. ... ".
Now , imagine a kashaya wearing swamiji loitering on the sands of Hooghly river searching for turtles and shad fish. Imagine our Swamiji haggling with turtle and shad fish selling women over price.