Vivekananda Mailing List-7/8/02

[Guest guest]

Of this I am certain that not one aspiration, well-guided or

ill-guided in my life, has been in vain, but that I am the resultant

of all my past, both good and evil. I have committed many mistakes in

my life; but mark you, I am sure of this that without every one of

those mistakes I should not be what I am today, and so am quite

satisfied to have made them. I do not mean that you are to go home

and willfully commit mistakes; do not misunderstand me in that way.

But do not mope because of the mistakes you have committed, but know

that in the end all will come out straight. It cannot be otherwise,

because goodness is our nature, purity is our nature, and that nature

can never be destroyed. Our essential nature always remains the same.