This is a compilation from the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. In the present confusion of thought and miserable plight through which people are passing, Swami Vivekananda's life-giving ideas on many of the burning socio-political problems that assail us today shed new light on the topic and show us a more suitable way to their solutions, thereby helping to establish a better world where people of all nations may live in peace and amity.
After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains--one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it.
-Swami Vivekananda
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