Voice of Vivekananda
By VivekaVani
Why doesn’t God free us from the world? Ah, He will free us when the disease is cured. He will liberate us from the world when we are through with the enjoyment of ‘woman and gold’. Once a man …
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By VivekaVani
Why has God made me lead this kind of life? (referring to his monastic life) Chaitanyadeva became a sannyasi so that all would salute him. Whoever salutes an Incarnation, even once, obtains …
By VivekaVani
The great conclusion is that Ramakrishna has no peer; nowhere else in the world exists that unprecedented perfection, that wonderful kindness for all that does not stop to justify itself, that intense …
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By VivekaVani
All doubts disappear when one sees God. It is one thing to hear of God, but quite a different thing to see Him. A man cannot have one hundred percent conviction through mere hearing. But if he beholds …
By VivekaVani
Go forward. Push on. You will discover the forest of sandal-wood. Go farther and you will find the silver-mine. Go farther still and you will see the gold-mine. Do not stop there. Go forward, and you …
By VivekaVani
Girish Chandra Ghosh was born (1844) in Calcutta I find that it is not difficult to obey him, love him, or worship him. But indeed it is difficult to forget him. (p.290, They lived with God, …
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