“Yoga, a word derived from the same Sanskrit root as the English word yoke, meaning “to join,” to join us to our reality, God.”
― Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
― Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
“Everyone and everything is Brahman, the pure, the ever-blessed Infinite Spirit. It is the name and the form that make all the seeming distinctions. If you take away these two differences of name and form, the whole universe is one; there are no two, but one everywhere.”
― Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
― Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
“It is not that there are three things, matter, mind, and soul; all is the One Soul, seen according to different visions. When knowledge itself comes, all illusions vanish, and we find that it is all nothing but Brahman.”
― Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
― Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
“Taking all this for granted, how is it that I do not remember anything of my past life? This can be easily explained. I am now speaking English. It is not my mother tongue. In fact, no words of my mother tongue are now present in my consciousness; but let me try to bring them up, and”
― Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
― Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
“The Advaitist or the qualified Advaitist does not say that dualism is wrong; it is a right view, but a lower one. It is on the way to truth. Therefore, let everybody work out their own vision of this universe, according to their own ideas. Injure none, allow people their way; take a person where he or she stands, and, if you can, lend a helping hand and put them on a higher platform, but do not injure and do not destroy. All will come to truth in the long run.”
― Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
― Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
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