Vivekananda Mailing List-3/20/04

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Therefore, dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads,

and dare to carry that out in your life. It is very hard to come to

Jnâna. It is for the bravest and most daring, who dare to smash all

idols, not only intellectual, but in the senses. This body is not I; it

must go. All sorts of curious things may come out of this. A man stands

up and says, " I am not the body, therefore my headache must be cured " ;

but where is the headache if not in his body? Let a thousand headaches

and a thousand bodies come and go. What is that to me? I have neither

birth nor death; father or mother I never had; friends and foes I have

none, because they are all I. I am my own friend, and I am my own

enemy.