God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life.
Swami VivekanandaRead
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God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life.
Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something.
Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.
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