Swami Vivekananda Inspired Talks Notes By San

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These great ones are untouched by aught of earth

^Parsees, the followers of Zoroaster who taught that the whole creation has come out of two primary principles one being called Ormuzd (the principle of Good) and the other Ahriman (the principle of Evil).

When the mind is self-poised, neither good nor bad affects it

Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

n our miseries and struggles the world seems to us a very dreadful place.

realising that it is only fun and that even a sharp nip now and then will do no actual harm,

This world is all for play and only amuses God; nothing in it can make God angry.

In the sea of life my bark is sinking

whirlwind of illusion, the storm of attachment

My five oarsmen (senses) are foolish, and the helmsman (mind) is weak.
My bearings are lost, my boat is sinking.

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