Saturday, June 24, 2006

The Words Of The Person Who Inspires Me The Most


Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you -- but do not think of that now... Yet have the power to give: give, and there it ends. Learn that the whole of life is giving, that nature will force you to give. So, give willingly. Sooner or later you will have to give up. You come into life to accumulate. With clenched hands, you want to take. But nature puts a hand on your throat and makes your hands open...The moment you say, "I will not", the blow comes; you are hurt. None is there but will be compelled, in the long run, to give up everything. And the more one struggles against this law, the more miserable one feels. [It] is because we dare not give, because we are not resigned enough to accede to this grand demand of nature, that we are miserable... The sun is taking up water from the ocean, to return it in showers. You are a machine for taking and giving: you take, in order to give. Ask, therefore, nothing in return; but the more you give, the more will come to you. The quicker you can empty the air out of this room, the quicker it will be filled up by the external air; and if you close all the doors and every aperture, that which is within will remain, but that which is outside will never come in, and that which is within will stagnate, degenerate, and become poisoned. A river is continually emptying itself into the ocean and is continually filling up again. Bar not the exit into the ocean.The moment you do that, death seizes you. Be, therefore, not a beggar; be unattached... Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart -- we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties. Nature wants us to react, to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. Then it requires a superdivine power not to hit back, to keep control, to be unattached.
- inspired by the words of swami vivekananda(leaves in fame)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you -- but do not think of that now... Yet have the power to give: give, and there it ends."

this is the principle i always follow, hmmm, what comment can anyone make to swami vivekananda's words??? his words are always inspiring!!!!!!