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Swami Vivekananda said: "The character of any man is

the aggregate of his tendencies, the sum total of the

bent of his mind. As pleasure and pain pass before his

soul, they leave upon it different pictures and the

result of these combined impressions is what is called

a man's character. We are what our thoughts have made

us. Each thought is a little hammer blow on our minds,

manufacturing out of it what we want it to be. Words

are secondary but thoughts live, they travel far."

 

In the words of Swamiji, again, in shaping our minds,

good and evil have equal share. In moulding character,

misery and hardship have been greater teachers than

happiness. Blows and trails have brought out the inner

fire much more than praise. Comparing the mind to a

lake, Swamiji said that every ripple, every wave that

rises there, when subsiding, does not die out

entirely, but leaves a mark with the possibility of

that mark coming out again in the future.

 

Likewise every deed we do, every movement we make,

every thought we think, leaves an impression on the

mind such that when even it is not obvious on the

surface, it is sufficiently strong to work beneath the

surface subconsciously. What we are at the moment, is

determined by the sum total of these impressions.

 

Hari Aum !!!