Pearls Of Wisdom

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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.

His words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I can not touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books at thirsty years’ distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what a shocks, what transports must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!

Unawares, Swami Vivekananda very often said things that startled his audience. He said them casually, carelessly without any thought about the impact that they might produce. What he said might be simple truths, but it is these simple truths, spoken with authority and coming spontaneously from a world teacher, that disturb you most. They remind you of your present limitations and of the great heights to which you might yet rise. They shake you to yours roots, sweeping away all the depression you have allowed to accumulate over the years and releasing within you new sources of energy which carry you forward.

It is some of such utterances by Swami Vivekananda which Prof.Govinda Gopal Mukhopadhyaya, with the assistance of two research assistants, working under him, Madhabi Sinha and Parna Mukherjee has picked up from among Swamiji’s speeches and writings from the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda published by Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, which this little book presents to the readers. While reading the utterances the reader may experience the same kind of electric shock which Romain Rolland experienced when he first read Swamiji.