Guest guest Posted April 28, 2004 Report Share Posted April 28, 2004 We offer everlasting tribute to Swami Vivekananda, who is Shiva incarnate, the radiant sun of knowledge reverently adored by celestial and earthly beings. With a glance filled with compassion, He shatters the confusing morass of negativity while conferring the sought after boons of fulfillment and liberation. To Vivekananda, the Supreme Teacher, adorned with the new moon as his emblem and worshiped by all beings, to the One, we pay homage. "Shankara left this Advaita [non-dual Vedanta] philosophy in the hills and forests; while I have come to bring it out of those places and scatter it broadcast before the work-a-day world and society. The lion-roar of Advaita must resound in every hearth and home, in meadows and groves, over hills and plains. Come all of you to my assistance, and set yourselves to work..." "...granted that you attain personal liberation by means of the realization of the Advaita, but what matters it to the world? You must liberate the whole universe before you leave this body. Then only you will be established in the eternal Truth. Has that bliss any match...?" "You will be established in the bliss of the Infinite, which is limitless like the skies. You will be struck dumb to find your presence everywhere in the world of soul and matter! You will feel the whole sentient and insentient world as your own self. Then you cannot help treating all with the same kindness as you show towards yourself. This is indeed practical Vedanta." -- Talks with Swami Vivekananda, pp. 203-204. "Where seekest thou? That freedom, friend, this world nor that can give. In books and temples vain thy search. Thine only is the hand that holds the rope that drags thee on. Then cease lament, let go thy hold, Sannyasin bold! Say-- "Om, Tat Sat, Om!"" -- verse from the Song of the Sannyasin "I will be born a thousand times and bear a thousand miseries if I can but help one suffering being to gain liberation." And again, "I will come back again and again until all the beings of the world know that they are one with Brahman." I will come back again and gain in different names until anticheater calls swamiji as cheater..i will come back to convert him to advaitan. Love Ranjan Bhandari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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