Swami Vivekananda

Durga Puja 2024 | Sandhi Puja Durga Puja 2024 | Visarjan =============================================================================== Thursday 08, Aug 2024 05:30. Lectures and Discourses Chicago 1893 3.STEPS TO REALISATION Swami Vivekananda (A class-lecture delivered in America) ================================================================================ STEPS TO REALISATION: (A class-lecture delivered in America) 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

================================================================================ Thursday 08, Aug 2024 05:30. Lectures and Discourses Chicago 1893 2.STEPS OF HINDU PHILOSOPHIC THOUGHT Swami Vivekananda ================================================================================ 2.STEPS OF HINDU PHILOSOPHIC THOUGHT: The first group of religious ideas that we see coming up — I mean recognised religious ideas, and not the very low ideas, which do not deserve the name of religion — all include the idea of inspiration and revealed books and so forth. The first group of religious ideas starts with the idea of God. Here is the universe, and this universe is created by a certain Being. Everything that is in this universe has been created by Him. Along with that, at a later stage, comes the idea of soul — that there is this body, and something inside this body which is not the body. This is the most primitive idea of religion that we know. We can find a few followers of that in India, but i