Kathamrita Volume II - Swami Vivekananda

eaten.’ Noticing it, Mathur Babu one day said,‘What is this, my dear sir? Why do you speaklike this? Let those people who have egotismdo it, but you don’t have I-consciousness.There is no need for you to speak in this way.’“I said to Keshab, ‘The ego will not vanish, soone must live with the attitude of a servant, aservant of God. Prahlada had both attitudes. Attimes he would feel, ‘You are I and I am You’– that is, the attitude of ‘Soham.’ When hissense of I-consciousness would return, hewould cherish the idea, ‘I am Your servant andYou are my Master.’ When one has been firmlyestablished in the attitude of ‘Soham,’ oneshould later live with the attitude of a servant –as, ‘I am the servant of God’.”Signs of having attained the knowledge of Brahman –‘I of a devotee’ – renunciation of work(To Captain) “There are some signs by whichone recognizes a person who has attained theknowledge of Brahman. The Srimad Bhagavatatalks of four states of a man of spiritualknowledge: He appears like (1) a child, (2) aninert object, (3) a crazy man, and (4) a ghoul.Sometimes he acts like a five-year-old child.And sometimes he acts like a mad man.“At times he lives like an inert object. In thisstate he cannot attend to work – all work dropsoff. If you say that Janaka and others did notrenounce work, the fact is that in that period of