Swami Vivekananda

  ==================================================================================================== MONDAY 21, JULY 2025, 06:15. CHAPTER I THE PREPARATORY RENUNCIATION:  SWAMI VIVRKANANDA. =====================================================================================================  We have now finished the consideration of what may be called the preparatory Bhakti, and are entering on the study of the Parâ-Bhakti or supreme devotion. We have to speak of a preparation to the practice of this Para-Bhakti. All such preparations are intended only for the purification of the soul. The repetition of names, the rituals, the forms, and the symbols, all these various things are for the purification of the soul. The greatest purifier among all such things, a purifier without which no one can enter the regions of this higher devotion (Para-Bhakti), is renunciation. This frightens many; yet, without it, there cannot be any spiritual growth. In all our Yogas this renunciat...