Swami Vivekananda

  ===================================================================================== SATURDAY 24, MAY 2025, 09:00. Volume I Lectures and Discourses STEPS TO REALISATION (A class-lecture delivered in America) SWAMI VIVEKANANDA. ==================================================================================== First among the qualifications required of the aspirant for Jnâna, or wisdom, come Shama and Dama, which may be taken together. They mean the keeping of the organs in their own centres without allowing them to stray out. I shall explain to you first what the word "organ" means. Here are the eyes; the eyes are not the organs of vision but only the instruments. Unless the organs also are present, I cannot see, even if I have eyes. But, given both the organs and the instruments, unless the mind attaches itself to these two, no vision takes place. So, in each act of perception, three things are necessary — first, the external instruments, then, the internal organs, and l...