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Swami Vivekananda's message to the modern man: “Man, you are not just a man: you are divinity incarnate with the unbroken element of consciousness. But that divinity is in its potential form, so awaken ye that potential."
Awakening of the latent potential is the aim, the personal duty of every human being towards himself, towards his God, towards his culture. We must fulfill this duty by not allowing that light to be neglected, or ignored, and by awakening that light and making our life a radiant process of manifesting that light in our every word, thought, sentiment and action. Then our whole life will be filled with divine qualities. This is our problem: we are potentially divine, but we are not making any effort to awaken that divinity. Our only medium is this inferior mind filled with desires, anger, ego, laziness, hatred, jealousy, selfishness and attachment. We are nothing but its slave. These clutches of the mind have made us forget our real nature. We spend our lives expressing those inferior qualities, impurities, shortcomings and weaknesses of the mind. This is our mistake. But once we know the problem, we will know the solution also.
Once you realize that because you are creating a lot of negative emotions within yourself you are unhappy and you are spreading a lot of unhappiness and darkness everywhere, then you will know that because you do this, all this unhappiness is occuring. So if you stop doing it, all this will also stop. Then you will begin to act in another way. You will begin to feel that you no longer wish to make youself a slave and an instrument in the hands of the lower mind and senses. You will no longer allow the mind and its weakness to dominate you, to force you to live a small life, only to manifest and express that. You will know that the mind is not your real nature.
Henceforth, you will think, "My real nature is great, grand, glorious and magnanimous. I am divine, being a child of God, and from now onwards I will not link myself with my mind, its vagaries and mundane activities. Through my divine link, I will open up a channel and make God's divinity flow into me unceasingly. I shall make my life, mentally, verbally and physically, one with the higher reality. By his company I shall clean the dirt of my old karmas and mistakes and become a radiant center of shining divinity, manifesting peace. I will not be a curse but a boon for the world." By such a decision, if we make
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