Guest guest Posted December 19, 2009 Report Share Posted December 19, 2009 Sairam Thank u for the divine thought Vijay Laxmi --- On Fri, 18/12/09, Rajesh Davda <rajeshdavda wrote: Rajesh Davda <rajeshdavda Teachings of Swami Vivekananda"#" Friday, 18 December, 2009, 8:14 PM Teachings of Swami Vivekananda Man thinks foolishly that he can make himself happy, and after years of struggle finds out at last that true happiness consists in killing selfishness and that no one can make him happy except himself. (I. 84) Nobody is really happy here. If a man be wealthy and have plenty to eat, his digestion is out of order, and he cannot eat. If a man's digestion is good, and he have the digestion of a cormorant, he has nothing to put into his mouth. If he be rich, he has no children. If he be hungry and poor, he has a whole regiment of children, and does not know what to do with them. Why is it so? Because happiness and misery are the obverse and reverse of the same coin; he who takes happiness, must take misery also. We all have this foolish idea that we can have happiness without misery, and it has taken such possession of us that we have no control over the senses. (I. 409) Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Homepage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Teachings of Swami Vivekananda Can any permanent happiness be given to the world? In the ocean we cannot raise a wave without causing a hollow somewhere else. The sum total of the good things in the world has been the same throughout in its relation to man's need and greed. It cannot be increased or decreased. Take the history of the human race as we know today. Do we not find the same miseries and the same happiness, the same pleasures and pains, the same differences in position? Are not some rich, some poor, some high, some low, some healthy, some unhealthy? All this was the same with the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans in ancient times as it is with the Americans today. So far as the history is known, it has always been the same. (I. 111-12) We cannot add happiness to this world; similarly, we cannot add pain to it either. The sum total of the energies of pleasure and pain displayed here on earth will be the same throughout. We just push it from this side to the other side, and from that side to this, but it will remain the same, because to remain so is its very nature. This ebb and flow, this rising and falling, is in the world's very nature; it would be as logical to hold otherwise as to say that we may have life without death. (I. 112) Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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