17 February :
17 Feb 1896 : Lectures in NY: "Human representation of the divine ideal
of love" and "Conclusion" - Shanta, Dasya, Sakhya, Vatsalya, Madhura
types of Bhakti - Man, O man, you speak of divine love and at the same
time are able to attend to all the vanities of this world — are you
sincere? "Where Râma is, there is no room for any desire — where desire
is, there is no room for Rama; these never coexist — like light and darkness they are never together."
In 10th lecture on Bhakti, Swami Vivekananda tells : We all have to
begin as dualists in the religion of love. God is to us a separate
Being, and we feel ourselves to be separate beings also. Love then comes
in the middle, and man begins to approach God, and God also comes
nearer and nearer to man. Man takes up all the various relationships of
life, as father, as mother, as son, as friend, as master, as lover, and
projects them on his ideal of love, on his God. To him God exists as all
these, and the last point of his progress is reached when he feels that
he has become absolutely merged in the object of his worship. We all
begin with love for ourselves, and the unfair claims of the little self
make even love selfish. At last, however, comes the full blaze of light,
in which this little self is seen to have become one with the Infinite.
Man himself is transfigured in the presence of this Light of Love, and
he realises at last the beautiful and inspiring truth that Love, the
Lover, and the Beloved are One.
Letter: Alasinga Perumal from US
...Have patience, my son--it will grow beyond all your expectations. . .
. Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before
succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.
..The dry, abstract Advaita must become living--poetic--in everyday
life; out of hopelessly intricate mythology must come concrete moral
forms; and out of bewildering Yogi-ism must come the most scientific and
practical psychology--and all this must be put in a form so that a
child may grasp it.
That is my life's work.
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