Swami Vivekananda: 7. VILVAMANGALA :

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Swami Vivekananda: 7. VILVAMANGALA :: (Found in the papers of Miss S. E. Waldo by Swami Raghavananda when he was in the U.S.A.) This is a story from one of the book...

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CHAPTER VI
NON-ATTACHMENT IS COMPLETE SELF-ABNEGATION
Part-22.

Then things will be made clearer to us by our own power of perception and thought, and we shall realise them in our own souls; and that realisation will grow into the intense power of will.

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Chapter-6.


"NON-ATTACHMENT IS COMPLETE SELF-ABNEGATION"


Part : 7.


By means of the constant effort to do good to others we are trying to forget ourselves; this forgetfulness of self is the one great lesson we have to learn in life.

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