Swamiji was never tired of
rousing people to e conscious of their inherent divinity and perfection. He wanted
this divinity and perfection. He wanted this divinity to manifest in our
day-to-day lives. In fact, he held this manifestation of divinity as the sole
index of civilization of humankind:
“A nation may conquer the
waves, control the elements, develop the utilitarian problems of life seemingly
to the utmost limits, and yet not realize that in the individual, the highest
type of civilization is found in him who has learned to conquer self.
“This universe is simply a
gymnasium in which the soul is taking exercise; and after these exercises we
become gods. So the value of everything is to be decided by how far it is a
manifestation of God. Civilization is the manifestation of that divinity in
man.”
This divinity in us is the
repository of eternal existence, eternal knowledge and eternal bliss. The more
it manifests, the more we experience abiding happiness and get supreme
knowledge.
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