| Let us go from
village to village and devote our life to the service of the poor." He also pointed
out rightly that by doing unselfish work for others, one will arrive at the same point to
which the religious men will come through their prayers and philosophers through their
knowledge.In the same way as the Bhagavad Gita has pointed out, Swami Vivekananda said!
"Even the hero or the saint who has reached the threshold of final liberation, must
retrace his steps and help his brethren who have fallen by the way or who are lagging
behind. The greatest man is he who is willing to
renounce his own realisation in 'order to help others to realize it instead.' Further, he
pointed out that every individual must adopt the golden mean between the two extremes. 'If
a man piunges headlong into the luxury of the world without knowing the truth, he is
missing his footing.On the other hand, if he curses the world and goes into the forest,
mortifies his flesh and kills himself little by little by starvation, makes his heart a
barren-waste, kills out feeling and becomes harsh, stem and dried up, he is also missing
his way.' |
