A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

~"""^**^20,MYMASTER.This rigorous, unsullied purity came into the life of ,that m;m nil; the struggles which \ve have in our live>were past for him. His hard-earned jewel- of .-piritua!for which he had given three-quartersof his life, werenow ready to be given to humanity, and then beganhis mis-ion. Hi- teaching and preaching were peculiar, hewould never take the position of a teacher. In our country a teacher i- a mo-t highly venerated person, h-regal Clodile.l a>Him-elf. AVe have not even thefor OUT father and mother. Father and motheigive us our body, but the teacher us the way to sliow> sal-\ ition, \W are his children, we are born in the spiritualto anline of the teacher. All Hindus come to pay re-peetextraordinary teacher, they crowd around him. And herewas such a teacher, but the teacher had no thought whether1he iv-pecTed or not, he had not the 1<that he teacher, he thought that it was Motherwho was doing everything and not he. He always said :"If any good comes from it ismy the Mother wholip>,speaks what have I to do with ; it?" That Mas his oneidea about, his work, and to the day of his death he liJve it up. This man sought no one. His principle\first form character, first earn spirituality, and rt-Milts willcome of *li -mselves. His favourite illustration was. AYe lotus opens, the bees come of their own accord tothe honey, .so let the lotus of your character be full-blownand the re-nits will follow." This is a great lesson tolearn. Mv Master taught me this lesson hundred- oftimes, yet I often forget it.Few understand the power ofthought. If a man goes into a cave, shuts himself in, andthinks one really great thought and dies, that thoughtwillpenetratethe adamantine walls of that cave, vibratethrough space, and at last penetrate the whole human race.