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Spiritual Freedom From Lower Freedoms
Swami Vivekananda said that 'one of the greatest lessons' he learnt in life was 'to pay as much attention to the means of work as to its end.'
He added:"I have been always learning great lessons from that one principle, and it appears to me that all the secret of success is there: to pay as much attention to the means as to the end"
Why is it that success eludes us often? Swamiji (Swami Vivekananda) explains:
"Our
great
defect
in
life
is
that
we
are
so
much
drawn
to
the
ideal,
the
goal
is
so
much
more
enchanting,
so
much
more
alluring,
so
much
bigger
in
our
mental
horizon,
that
we
lose
sight
of
the
details
altogether.''
Analyse
your
failure
critically,
Swamiji
(Swami
Vivekananda)
says,
and
you
will
find
that
it
was
because
you
did
not
pay
attention
to
the
means"
He continues: "Proper attention to the finishing, strengthening, of the means is what we need. With the means all right, the end must come"
We forget that it is the cause that produces the effect; the effect cannot come by itself; and unless the causes are exact, proper, and powerful the effect will not be produced. Once the ideal is chosen and the means determined, we may almost let go the ideal, because we are sure it will be there when the means are perfected. When the cause is there, there is no more difficulty about the effect, the effect is bound to come. If we take care of the cause, the effect will take care of itself. The realization of the ideal is the effect. The means are the cause: attention to the means, therefore, is the one secret of life.
Those who aspire for spiritual freedom without first achieving the 'lower' freedoms described earlier, are like the convict who has plans ready to get out of the jail without having the least idea of how to free his hands and feet from the chains that bind him.
About
the
author
Swami
Tyagananda
Swami
Tyagananda
in
this
write
up
which
is
an
excerpt
from
'Degrees
of
Freedom'
points
out
the
Spiritual
Freedom
can
be
sought
only
by
attaining
the
other
lower
forms
of
freedom
like
freedom
from
body,
freedom
from
mind
and
freedom
from
intellect.
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