A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

<GOD IN EVERYTHING. 329have your wives ;it does not mean that you are to abandontnem, and leave them to go away, but that you are to see<5cd in the wife. Give up your children what;does thatmean ? Take your children and throw them into the street,as some human brutes do in every country ? Certainly not.That is diabolism ;it would not be religion.But see Godin your children. So in everything. In life and in death,in woe or>injoy, in misery or in happiness, the wholeworld is full of the Lord. Open your eyes and see Him. Thatis what Vedanta says. Give up the world which you have-conjectured,because your conjecture was based upon verypartial experience, your conjecture was based upon verypoor reasoning, your conjecture was based upon your ownworld we have been thinkweaknesses. Give that up ;^theing of so long, the world to which we have been clinging solong, is a false world of our own creation. Give that up ;open your eyes and see that, as such, it never existed ;itwas a dream, Maya. What existed was the Lord Himself.It is He in the child, He in the wife, and He in thehusband, He in the good, and He in the bad, He in themurderer, He in the sin, and He in the sinner, He in lifeand He in death.A tremendous proposal indeed !Yet that is the theme which the Yedanta wants toprove, to demonstrate, to teach, and to preach. This isjust the opening fcheme.Thus we avoid the dangers of life and its evils. Do notwant anything. What makes us miserable ? The cause ofall miseries from which we suffer has been made by desire,want. You want something, and the want is not fulfilled ;the result is distress. If there is no want, there will be nomore suffering. When we shall give upall our desires,what will be the result ? The walls have no desires and