Guest guest Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 Teachings of Swami Vivekananda We say that it is freedom that we are to seek, and that, that freedom is God. It is the same happiness as in everything else; but when man seeks it in something which is finite, he gets only a spark of it. The thief when he steals gets the same happiness as the man who finds it in God; but the thief gets only a spark with a mass of misery. The real happiness is God. Love is God, freedom is God; and everything that is bondage is not God. (V. 288) Man has the freedom already, but he will have to discover it. He has it but every moment he forgets it. That discovering, consciously or unconsciously, is the whole life of every one. But the difference between the sage and the ignorant man is that one does it consciously and the other unconsciously. (V. 288) Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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