Practical Vedanta and other lectures: Swami Vivekananda.
==================================================================================== Saturday 15, November 025, 20:08. Swami Vvekananda Works Volume -2. Practical Vedanta and other lectures: ======================================================= YAJNAVALKYA AND MAITREYI: We say, "That day is indeed a bad day on which you do not hear the name of the Lord, but a cloudy day is not a bad day at all." Yâjnavalkya was a great sage. You know, the Shastras in India enjoin that every man should give up the world when he becomes old. So Yajnavalkya said to his wife, "My beloved, here is all my money, and my possessions, and I am going away." She replied, "Sir, if I had this whole earth full of wealth, would that give me immortality?" Yajnavalkya said, "No, it will not. You will be rich, and that will be all, but wealth cannot give us immortality." She replied, "what shall I do to gain that through which I shall become immortal? If you know, tell me...