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.
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.
-Swami Vivekananda