An extract from Swami Vivekananda's Works
This is an extract from "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda-Volume 2". I really liked it and was inspired hence presenting it here for everyone's benefit. It is taken from a chapter where he explains 'Practical Vedanta'. To be able to use what we call Viveka(discrimination) to learn how in every moment of our lives, in every one of our actions, to discriminate between what is right and wrong, true and false, we shall have to know the test of truth, which is purity, oneness. Everything that makes for oneness is truth. Love is truth, and hatred is false, because hatred makes for multiplicity. It is hatred that separates man from man; therefore it is wrong and false. It is a disintegrating power; it separates and destroys. Love binds, love makes for that oneness. You become one, the mother with the child, families with their city, the whole world becomes one with the animals. For love is Existence, God Himself; and all this is the manifestation of that One Love,...