The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 5/Epistles - First Series/LXXIII Madam
LXXIII
London,
13th December, 1896.
Dear Madam,[1]
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.
- Notes
- ↑ An American Lady.