I am writing this blog from "Meditation" by Swami Vivekananda and came across this beautiful article "Man the maker of his destiny" so, here I'm very much excited to share this beauty with you all.
Weak men lose everything and feel weak, try all sorts of uncanny methods of making money, and come to astrology and all these things. "It is the coward and the fool who says, "This is fate" -- so says the Sanskrit proverb. But it is the strong man who stands up and says, "I will make my fate."
There is an old story of an astrologer who came to a king and said, "You are going to die in six months." The king was frightened out of his wits and was almost about to die then and there from fear. But, his minister was a clever man, and this man told the king that these astrologers were fools. The king would not believe him.
So the minister saw no other way to make the king see that they were fools but to invite the astrologer to the palace again. There he said that there could not be a mistake, but to satisfy him he went through the whole of the
Calculations again and then said that they were perfectly correct. The king's face became livid. The minister said to the astrologer, "And when do you think that you will die?" "In twelve years", was the reply.
The minister quickly drew his sword, separated the astrologer's head from the body, and said to the king, "Do you see this liar? He is dead this moment."
The biggest enemy of man is ignorance.
What makes the difference between God and man, between the saint and the sinner? Only ignorance. What is the difference between the highest mean and the lowest worm that crawls under your feet? Ignorance.
That makes all the difference. For inside that little crawling worm lodged infinite power, and knowledge, and purity--the infinite divinity of God Himself. It is unmanifested; It will have to be manifested. This is spirituality, the science of the soul.
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