Voice of Vivekananda
By VivekaVani
Work for work’s sake. Your whole mind should be fixed upon the work. Let that be your ideal, the be-all and end-all of life. Never mind success or failure. (p.144, Spiritual Talks, Swami …
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By VivekaVani
It is all Mother…. All men are good. Only we cannot reach all…. I am never going to teach anymore. Who am I that I should teach anyone? (p.3-4, Vol.5, New Discoveries, Sister Nivedita describing …
By VivekaVani
Who says that spiritual practice produces no effect? Surely it does. There is not a shade of doubt about it. People of the world give you wages, if you work for them. Is God so unkind that He will not …
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By VivekaVani
One can know it (whether one is progressing towards God or not) oneself. Others also can know it. All his passions, lust, anger, and greed will wane, his attachment for the objects of the senses will …
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Inscrutable are the ways of providence. But He is good and kind to us and we have to admit that. May we not lose faith in His dispensation, no matter how we are situated. Let us not think selfishly, …
By VivekaVani
Self-surrender means: To practice contentment by thinking that wherever the Lord keeps me is for my good; to unify one’s will with the will of God; and to practice even-mindedness in happiness and …