Minister: Swami Tathagatananda &
Assistant Minister: Swami Paritushtananda
Ramakrishna Order of India
Inspiring Talks
Do all as a sacrifice or offering to the Lord. Be in the world, but not of it, like the lotus leaf whose roots are in the mud but which remains always pure. Let your love go to all, whatever they do to you. A blind man cannot see colour, so how can we see evil unless it is in us? We compare what we see outside with what we find in ourselves and pronounce judgment accordingly. If we are pure, we cannot see impurity. It may exist, but not for us. See only God in every man, woman and child; see it by the antarjyotis, "inner light", and seeing that, we can see naught else. Do not want this world, because what you desire you get. Seek the Lord and the Lord only. The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear. How much more afraid and miserable are we than the ant! Get out of it all and come to the Lord. Seek the science of the maker and not that of the made.
Life
& Works of Swami Vivekananda
Gospel
of Sri Ramakrishna
Swami
Tathagatanandaji
Swami Tathagatananda, a senior monk of the
Ramakrishna Order, is the resident spiritual
leader of the VSNY since 1976
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