How to work miracles

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Three Important things, for great achievements

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Swami Vivekananda appealed to the young men and women

of India to take up the tremendous task of the uplift

of the masses. He considered three things necessary

for great achievements.

 

"First, feel from the heart. Do you feel? Do you feel

that millions and millions of the descendants of Gods

and of sages have become next-door neighbours to

brutes? Does it make you restless? Does it make you

sleepless? Has it gone into your blood, coursing

through your veins, becoming consonant with your

heartbeats? Are you seized with that one idea and have

forgotten all about your name, your fame, your wives,

your children, your property, even your own bodies?

Have you done that? That is the very first step.

 

You may feel then: but instead of spending your

energies in frothy talk, have you found any way out,

any practical solution, to soothe their miseries, to

bring them out of this living death?

 

Yet, that is not all. Have you got the will to

surmount mountain-high obstructions? if the whole

world stands against you sword in hand, would you

still dare to do what you think is right? If your

wives and children are against you, if all your name

dies, your wealth vanishes, would you still stick to

it? Have you got that steadfastness?

 

If you have these three things, each one of you will

work miracles."

 

- Swami Vivekananda