Anecdotes from Swami Vivekananda's life

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Turn around and face it !Once

at Varanasi, as Swamiji was coming out of the temple of Mother Durga,

he was surrounded by a large number of chattering monkeys. They seemed

to  be threatening him. Swamiji did not want them to catch hold of him,

so he started to run away. But the monkeys chased him. An old sannyasin

was there, watching those monkeys. He called out to Swamiji, 'Stop!

Face the brutes!' Swamiji stopped. He turned round and faced the

monkeys. At once, they ran away. Many years later, Swamiji said: 'If

you ever feel afraid of anything, always turn round and face it. Never

think of running away.'-- OM  GURU  NATHASAI  GURU  NATHA