Guest guest Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 Excerpt from the book Vivekananda - East meets West by Swami Chetanananda ************************************************************* At one of the public meetings in New York, after addressing a tense audience for about fifteen minutes the swami suddenly made a formal bow and retired. The meeting broke up and the people went away greatly disappointed. A friend asked him, when he was returning home, why he had cut short the lecture in that manner, just when both he and the audience were warming up. Had he forgotten his points? Had he become nervous? The swami answered that at the meeting he had felt that he had too much power.He had noticed that the members of the audience were becoming so absorbed in his ideas that they were losing their individualities. He had felt that they had become like soft clay and that he could give them any shape he wanted. That, however, was contrary to his philosophy. He wished every man and woman to grow according to his or her own inner law. He did not wish to change or destroy anyone's individuality. That was why he had to stop. ******************************************************************* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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