11 February :
11 Feb 1893 - from Hyderabad letter to Alasinga - His plan to go to
America are dashed...man learns as he lives, and experience is the
greatest teacher in the world. "Thy will be done on earth as it is in
heaven, for Thine is the glory and the kingdom for ever and ever."
11 Feb 1897 : Swami Vivekananda spoke at Madras on 'The Sages of India' - the Vedantic religion does not require any
such personal authority. Its sanction is the eternal nature of man, its
ethics are based upon the eternal spiritual solidarity of man, already
existing, already attained and not to be attained......The definition is
that the Rishi is the Mantra-drashtâ, the seer of thought....."This
Atman is not to be reached by too much talk, no, not even by the highest
intellect, no, not even by the study of the Vedas themselves."...You
may exhaust the literature of the world that is past, and I may assure
you that you will have to exhaust the literature of the world of the
future, before finding another Sita. Sita is unique; that character was
depicted once and for all. There may have been several Ramas, perhaps,
but never more than one Sita! She is the very type of the true Indian
woman, for all the Indian ideals of a perfected woman have grown out of
that one life of Sita; and here she stands these thousands of years,
commanding the worship of every man, woman, and child throughout the
length and breadth of the land of Âryâvarta. There she will always be,
this glorious Sita, purer than purity itself, all patience, and all
suffering. She who suffered that life of suffering without a murmur, she
the ever-chaste and ever-pure wife, she the ideal of the people, the
ideal of the gods, the great Sita, our national God she must always
remain.....Only let me say now that if I have told you one word of
truth, it was his and his alone, and if I have told you many things
which were not true, which were not correct, which were not beneficial
to the human race, they were all mine, and on me is the responsibility.
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