Vivekananda Mailing List-1/27/03

[Guest guest]

What can we do at best? Build a hospital, make roads, or erect charity

asylums. We may organise a charity and collect two or three millions of

dollars, build a hospital with one million, with the second give balls

and drink champagne, and of the third let the officers steal half, and

leave the rest finally to reach the poor; but what are all these? One

mighty wind in five minutes can break all your buildings up. What shall

we do then? One volcanic eruption may sweep away all our roads and

hospitals and cities and buildings. Let us give up all this foolish

talk of doing good to the world. It is not waiting for your or my help;

yet we must work and constantly do good, because it is a blessing to

ourselves. That is the only way we can become perfect.