A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

.ed.The. d16 MY MASTER.madness alone will come the powers of the future,that are going to be in the world. SoMl.-iy-. weeks,months passed in continuous struggle of the sou! to arriveat Truth. The hoy began to se visions, to see wonderful things, tin- f his nature were beginniopen to him. Veil after veil w.is as it were, being takenOff. Mother Herself became the teacher, and initiated theuto the truths he sought. At this time ne toplace a woman, beautifid to l->ok at, !compare. Later on tlii> Saint u-ed to -ay about her thatshe v.irned, hut was the embodiment of learning;learning itself, in human form. There, too,lind the jn culiarity of4;.. Indian nation. Inid-t of the ignorance in which the average Hinduwoman lives, in the midst, of what is railed in wicountries her lack of fiv.omanofthis supreme spirituality. She was a Sannyasini, forwomen aNo give up the world, throw away their projdo not marry, and devote t! - to the worship of the.ecame, and when si;" heard of this hoy in theshe offered to go to seM..im, and here was the first.At once >heivcogni/.ed what, his trftubleand she said to him :is %the manupon whom such madn. whole of this un*i\erseiad ; some for wealth, SODM* IOF pleasure, some for.some for a hundred other, tilings. Blessed is the manwho in mad after God. Such men ai everyfew." Thiswoman remained near the boy for years, taught him theforms of the religions of India, initiated him in thedifferent practices of Yoga, and, as it were, guided ;.ndbrought into harmony this tremendous river of spirituality.