A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

330 GOD IN EVERYTHING.they never suffer. No, and they never evolve. This chairhas no desires ;it never suffers, and it is a chair, too, allthe time.There is a glory in happiness, there is a glory^nsuffering. If I may dare to say so, there is a utility inevil, too. The^great lesson in misery we all know. Hundredsof things we have done in our lives which we wish wehad never done, but which, at the same time, have beengreat teachers. As for me, I am glad I have dene something good and many things which were bad. I am gladI have done good things, and glad I have done something.bad ; glad I have done something right, and fglad I havecommitted many errors, because everyone of them has beena great lesson.I, as I am this minute, resultant of all I haveam^thedone, all I have thought. Every action and thought have aneffect, and this is the sum-total of my progress I am going:on merrily. Thus the problem becomes difficult. We allunderstand that desires are wrong, but what is meant bygiving up desires How ? can life go on ? It would be thesame suicidal advice, which means killing the desire and thepatient too. So the answer comes. Not that you wouldnot have property, not that you would not have thingswhich are necessary, and things which are even luxuries.Have all that you want, and everything that you do notwant sometimes, only know the truth and realise the truth.This wealth does not belong to anybody. Have no idea ofproprietorship, possessorship. You are nobody, nor am I,nor anyone else. It all belongs to the Lord, because thaGodopening verse told us to put the Lord in everything.is in that wealth that you^enjoy. He is in the desire thatrises in your mind, He isin these things you buy becauseyou desire He is in ; your beautiful attire, in your beautifulornaments. That is the line of thought. All will be meta-