3.STEPS TO REALISATION: 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