Vivekananda Mailing List-8/30/03

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Such alone are the real teachers, and such alone are also the real

students, the real aspirants. All others are only playing with

spirituality. They have just a little curiosity awakened, just a little

intellectual aspiration kindled in them, but are merely standing on the

outward fringe of the horizon of religion. There is no doubt some value

even in that, as it may in course of time result in the awakening of a

real thirst for religion; and it is a mysterious law of nature that as

soon as the field is ready, the seed must and does come; as soon as the

soul earnestly desires to have religion, the transmitter of the

religious force must and does appear to help that soul.