Diwali Greetings 2014 !!!

May The Divine And Spiritual Light of this Holy Festival,

Brighten Up Your Life With Health And Joy.

               

We wish you & your Family a very Happy Diwali & 

a Prosperous New Year.

With best wishes,

Best Regards,

ANK_MHT Group Team

Today's Vivekananda Quotes !

The binding link of "I and mine" is in the mind. If we have not this link with the body and with the things of the senses, we are non-attached, wherever and whatever we may be. A person may be on a throne and perfectly non-attached, another may be in rags and still very much attached. 

Class on Karma Yoga. New York, January 10, 1896. Complete Works, 1.101.

[To a group of college students] Think of this infinite universe with its millions and millions of solar systems, and think with what an infinite, incomprehensible power they are impelled, running as if to touch the Feet of the One Unknown--and how little we are! Where then is room here to allow ourselves to indulge in vileness and mean-mindedness? What should we gain here by fostering mutual enmity and party-spirit?

                     Conversations recorded in Bengali by Surendra Nath Das Gupta. Complete Works, 5.330.

I am Ramakrishna's slave, having laid my body at his feet "with Til and Tulasi leaves." That great sage laid down his life after having attained to superhuman heights of jñāna, bhakti, love, and powers, and after having practiced for forty years stern renunciation, non-attachment, holiness, and great austerities. I trust his words as the words of one identified with truth.

Letter to Pramada Das Mitra. Written in Bengali from Kolkata on May 26, 1890. Complete Works, 6.239.

We must first attain the state of non-attachment and then we must work incessantly. Karma yoga gives us the method that will help us in giving up all attachment, though it is indeed very hard.

Class on Karma Yoga. New York, January 10, 1896. Complete Works, 1.101-102.

There are two ways of giving up attachment. One is for those who do not believe in God, or in any outside help. They are left to their own devices. They have simply to work with their own will, with the powers of their mind and discrimination, saying, "I must be non-attached."

Class on Karma Yoga. New York, January 10, 1896. Complete Works, 1.102.

For those who believe in God, there is a much less difficult way of giving up all attachment. They give up the fruits of work to God. They work and are never attached to the results. Whatever they see, feel, hear, or do, is for God.

Class on Karma Yoga. New York, January 10, 1896. Complete Works, 1.102. 

See Gita, 9.27: "Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer, 

whatever you give away, whatever austerities you practice

--do all of that as an offering to God."