A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"THE MAHABHAP.ATA.svers in India than any other Incaranatioh of God.lonowers hold that he was the most perfect of theseprophets. Why ? Because, they say, look at Buddha andlook at the others :they were only monks, they had nosympathy for married people. How could they have ;but look at Krishna : He was great as a son, as a king, as afather, and all through his life he had that marvellous ca^rying out of what he preached. His work was all incidental,all the time let the man be at rest, that was the idea.saysin the GitaHeHe who in the midst of the greatest activity finds the sweetest peace and in, the midst of the greatestcalmness is most active, he has known the secret of life."And how he shows the way to do it by being non-attached :1do everything but get not identified with anythiftg^ youare tke soul, all the time separate ; you are the witness.Do not stick to anything. Our misery comes not fromwork but by our getting attached to something. So,money, money is a great thing ;earn it/ says Krishna,*struggle hard to get money ;but don t get attached to*it ; you are not money ; money goes and comes why lovethen a fleeting thing ? So with children, so with wife,husband, fame, everything*: don t get attached. There isonly one attachment and that belongs to the Lord to none;other. But work for them, love them, do good to them,sacrifice a hundred lives for them, but be never attached.His own life was exactly that. His first great work wasthe fight treated of in the Mahabharata. Mind you, thisbook is several thousand years old and some parts of his(c life are very similar to that of Jesus of Nazareth ;he wasborn of royal birth and how there was a tyrant king,called Kamsa, that there was a prophecy current that therewill be born of such and such a family a prince who will beking.So, Kamsa ordered all the children to be massacred