A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

".>man""",MY MASTER.>27Conquest of lust and desire for money. He was beyondall ideas of Cither, and such men are necessary for thiscentury. Such renunciation is i in theM day>when men have begun to think that they cannot live amonth without what they call their u H606esiti08 N 9:mdwhich they are increasing in geometricalratio. It isin a time like this that a man shall ari>e toBarydemonstrate to the sceptics of the world that there yetwho does not care a >tra\v for all the goldor all the fame that is in the universe. Yet thensuch men.The first part of my Master s life was spent in acquiringspirituality, and the remaining years in distributing it.Men came in crowds to hear him and he would talk twentyhours in the twenty-four, and that not for one day,but for months and months, until at last the. bodybroke down under the pressure of this tremendousstrain. His intense love for mankind would not let himrefuse to help even the humblest of the thousands whosought his aid. Gradually there developed a vital tlyoatdisorder and yet he could not be persuaded to refrain fromthese exertions. As soon as he heard that people wereasking to see him he would insist upon having them admitted and would answer all their questions. There wasno rest for him. Once a man asked him :Sir, you area great Yogi, why do you not put your mind a little onyour body and cure your disease ? At first he did notanswer, but when the question had been repeated he gentlysaid :My friend, I have thought you were a sage, butyou talk like other men of the world. This mind has beengiven to the Lord, do you mean to say that I should takeit back and putitupon the body which is but a mere cageof the soul ?