Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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Speech of Swami Vivekananda at Chicago



I will tell you a little story. You have heard the eloquent speaker who has just finished say, “Let us cease from abusing each other,” and he was very sorry that there should be always so much variance.


But I think I should tell you a story which would illustrate the cause of this variance. A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. It was born there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog. Of course, the evolutionists were not there then to tell us whether the frog lost its eyes or not, but, for our story’s sake, we must take it for granted that it had its eyes, and that it every day cleansed the water of all the worms and bacilli that lived in it with an energy that would do credit to our modern bacteriologists. In this way it went on and became a little sleek and fat. Well, one day another flog that lived in the sea came and fell into the well.



“Where are you form?”

“I am from the sea.”

“The sea! How big is that? Is it as big as my well?” and he took a leap from one side of the well to the other.

“My friend,” said the frog of the sea, “how do you compare the sea with your little well?”

Then the frog took another leap and asked, “Is your sea so big?”

“What nonsense you speak, to compare the sea with your well!”

“Well, then,” said the frog of the well, “nothing can be bigger than my well; there can be nothing bigger than this; this fellow is a liar, so turn him out.”




That has been the difficulty all the while.



I am a Hindu. I am sitting in my own little well and thinking that the whole world is my little well. The Christian sits in his little well and thinks the whole world is his well. The Mohammedan sits in his little well and thinks that is the whole world. l have to thank you of America for the great attempt you are making to break down the barriers of this little world of ours, and hope that, in the future, the Lord will help you to accomplish your purpose.

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Health and Longevity by Swami Sivananda

He who drinks and has no thirst
Or eats and has no hunger
He who does not take any exercise
Suffers illness and dies young.


He who wastes much the vital fluid
He who uses tobacco
He who takes heavy dinners
Suffers illness and dies young.


He who drinks buttermilk
He who eats tomatoes and lemons
He who walks three miles daily
Is healthy and attains longevity.


He who is moderate in everything
He who basks in the sun
He who takes cold bath
Is healthy and attains longevity.


He who is ever busy
He who talks a little
He who drinks water in the early morning
Is healthy and attains long life.


He who takes spinach or palak
He who gets up when he is still hungry
He who observes silence during eating
Is healthy and attains long life.


He who fasts and meditates
He who eats to live
He who takes to Nature-cure.
Is healthy and attains immortality.
- Swami Sivananda
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