A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"Where""528 WHAT HAVE I LEARNT?pain, where dwells the Bliss Supreme" ;who say,I beliieve in salvation by bathing in the holy Ganges with fa^th";-who say,H Whomsoever you may worship with singlenessof faith and devt^ion as the one god of the universe, in whatsoever form as Shiv&yRama, Vishnu, &c., you will get Moksha";to that sturdy ancient class I am proud to belong.Then here is a sect who advise us to follow God and the Worldtogether..They are not sincere, they do no,t express ~vhatthey feel in their hearts. What is the teaching o i thegreat Ones ?there is Rama,there is noKama where there is; Kama, there Rama is not. Nightand day can never exist together."The voice of theancient sages proclaim to us that,If you desire to attainGod, you will have to renounce * Kama-Kanchana \istand possession). This Samsara is unreal, hollow, void ofsubstance. Unless you give it up you can never reach God ;rtry however you may. If you cannot do that, own thatyou are weak, but by no means lower the ideal. Do notcover the corrupting corpse with leaves of Gold !" Sc*according to them, if you want to gain spirituality, to attainGod, the first thing that you have to do is to give up thisplaying hide-and-seek with your ideas, this dishonesty,thistheft within the chamber of thought.r What have I learnt ? What have I learnt from thisancient sect ? I have learnt,these three are rare to "Verily, obtain, and come onlythrough the grace of God human birth, desire to obtainMokhsha, and the company of the great-souled Theones."<firstthing needed is Mamishyatvam, human birth, becauseit only is favourable to the attainment of Mukti. Thenext is Mumukshatvam. Though our means of realisationvary according to the difference in sects and individuals,though different individuals can lay claims to their special