This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger....It lays no responsibility on little gods; for you are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who puts your hands before your eyes. Take your hands away and see the light; you are effulgent, you are perfect already, from the very beginning....
How are we to see it? This mind, so deluded, so weak, so easily led, even this mind can be strong and may catch a glimpse of that knowledge, that Oneness, which saves us from dying again and again.
As rain falling upon a mountain flows in various streams down the sides of the mountain, so all the energies which you see here are from that one Unit. It has become manifold falling upon Maya. Do not run after the manifold; go towards the One.
Vivekananda
Hmm! This helps a bit in understanding why we need these physical lives that can be so crazy at times, so challenging. It is all a part of our spiritual growth. We will see and understand Truth so much better by seeing "through" this drama to what is real.
But as man sees his own face in a mirror, perfect, distinct, and clear, so is the Truth shining in the soul of man. The highest heaven, therefore, is in our own souls; the greatest temple of worship is the human soul, greater than all heavens, says the Vedanta; for in no heaven anywhere, can we understand the reality as distinctly and clearly as in this life, in our own soul.
All is well.
Vivekananda (n.d.) 2.5.9 Chapter 9: Unity in Diversity (London, 1896) Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Kindle Edition
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