Talks Excerpt 472. Swamiji says: Swami Vivekananda is the one who changed the thought-waves of the whole universe.

From Mother Radha’s recordings of Swamiji.

[Speaking about Swami Vivekananda continued.]

Naren [Swami Vivekananda‘s premonastic name] was always truthful. At school, during a lesson, the teacher heard talking in the class, and thinking that it was Naren, he said, ‘Right, Naren, you tell the class what I just said.’ Naren repeated the whole thing word for word, so the teacher thought it could not have been him talking. When the teacher blamed another boy, Naren admitted that he had indeed been talking. His mind could not tolerate lies because he had a conscience.

It seems that some of our consciences have become paralysed. You have no conscience if you speak lies and cheat others.

Swami Vivekananda, from that young age, manifested this love for truth. This is an example of how your children too should be.

This same Swami Vivekananda liked to play games. He would gather all his friends around him and tell each one which part to play: ‘You are a servant, you are a shoemaker, you must sweep the floor and I am the king.’ [laughter]

Even when he was young that inner nature of his manifested itself. He was a ruler – he grew up ruling. He ruled his own mind and body, and today he rules a universe with his thoughts. He is the one that changed the thought-waves of the whole universe.

It appears that he loved his ‘charioteer’ – the man who drove him to school in a horse drawn carriage. He would say, ‘When I grow up I’ll become a charioteer.’ In the beginning he learned from this man how to discipline the horses. Later he disciplined the ‘horse’ of his own mind and became the charioteer for thousands of people in India and the rest of the world.

Do not take anything on faith unless it is proved. No superstition whatsoever could catch hold of Swami Vivekananda.

We are living in a scientific age and we should not accept everything without question.

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