Swami Vivekananda says Renunciation should be our highest ideal of character

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IV (Selections from the Math Diary)

Volume 5,Questions and Answers

 

Q.—Is the division of time into four Yugas astronomical or arbitrary

calculation?

 

A.—There is no mention of such divisions in the Vedas. They are arbitrary

assumptions of Paurânika times.

 

Q.—What should be our highest ideal of character?

 

A.—Renunciation.

 

Q.—Brahman and Maya cannot be cognised simultaneously. How could the

absolute reality of either be proved as arising out of the one or the other?

 

A.—It could be proved only by realisation. When one realises Brahman, for

him Maya exists no longer, just as once the identity of the rope is found

out, the illusion of the serpent comes no more.

 

Q.—What is Maya?

 

A.—There is only one thing, call it by any name—matter, or spirit. It is

difficult or rather impossible to think the one independent of the other.

This is Maya, or ignorance.

 

Q.—What is the proof of the self in us not being the product of the body

etc.?

 

A.—The " ego " like its correlative " non-ego " , is the product of the body,

mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.

 

Source:

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Om namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram

 

 

 

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Om namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram