LETTER NO.:39
Dear……………..,*
We have only to grasp the idea of gradation of
morality and everything becomes clear.
Renunciation — non-resistance — non-destructiveness
— are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and
less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work
towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction,
without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be
realised in society.
The progress of the world through all its evils
making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely. The majority will have to go
on with this slow growth — the exceptional ones will have to get out to realise
the idea in the present state of things.
Doing the duty of the time is the best way, and if
it is done only as a duty, it does not make us attached.
Music is the highest art and, to those who
understand is the highest worship.
We must try our best to destroy ignorance and evil.
Only we have to learn that evil is destroyed by the growth of good.
Yours faithfully,
VIVEKANANDA.
*[You may treat these letters as if addressed to
you]
SOURCE: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda;
Volume-5; Epistles First Series
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