A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"THE FREEDOM OF THE SOUL. 145dangerous on the human being, and theyThey never bring any good.are all useless.Those who have tried may agree with me, that suchthings always bring morbidity into the human being, makehim weak, so weak that in course of time it will be almostimpossible for him to receive truth and live up to truth.Strength, therefore, is the one thing that we want.Strengthening is the great medicine for the world s disease .Strengthening is the medicine which the poor must havewhen tyrannised over by the rich. Strengthis the medicinethat the ignorant must have when oppressed by the learned ;and it isthe medicine that sinners must have when tyrannised over by other sinners, and nothing gives such strengthas this idea of Monism. Nothing makes us so moral as thisidea of Monism. Nothing makes us work so well atour best and highest, as when all the responsibilityis thrown upon us. I challenge every one of you. Howwill you behave if I put a little baby in your hands ?Your whole life will be changed for the moment ;whateverYouyou be you must become selfless for the time being.will give up all your criminal ideas as soon as responsibilityis thrown upon you, your whole character will change. Soif the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders we are at our highest and best, when we havenobody to grope towards to lay all our blame upon, whenwe have neither the devil nor a personal God to lay all ourevils upon, when we are alone responsible. That takes usto our highest and best.I am responsible for my fate, Iam the bringer of good unto myself, I am thebringerof evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must rejectall thoughts that assert the contrary. I never had deathnor fear, I have no difference of caste or creed, I had10