Subject: The greatest men in the world have passed away unknown...
From: "slider" <slider@anashram.com>
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"The greatest men in the world have passed away unknown. The Buddhas and the
Christs that we know are but second-rate heroes in comparison with the greatest
men of whom the world knows nothing. Hundreds of these unknown heroes have lived
in every country working silently. Silently they live and silently they pass away;
and in time their thoughts find expression in Buddhas or Christs, and it is these
latter that become known to us. The highest men do not seek to get any name or
fame from their knowledge. Their whole nature shrinks from such a thing. They are
the pure Sāttvikas, who can never make any stir, but only melt down in love.
In the life of Gautama Buddha we notice him constantly saying that he is the
twenty-fifth Buddha. The twenty-four before him are unknown to history, although
the Buddha known to history must have built upon foundations laid by them. The
highest men are 'calm, silent, and unknown'. They are the men who really know the
power of thought; they are sure that, even if they go into a cave and close the
door and simply think five true thoughts and then pass away, these five thoughts
of theirs will live through eternity. Indeed such thoughts will penetrate through
the mountains, cross the oceans, and travel through the world. They will enter
deep into human hearts and brains and raise up men and women who will give them
practical expression in the workings of human life.. The Buddhas and Christs will
go from place to place preaching these truths... These Sattvika men are too near
the Lord to be active and to fight, to be working, struggling, preaching and doing
good, as they say, here on earth to humanity...."
--swami vivekananda
foreword quote from Henry Miller's book: 'The Air-Conditioned Nightmare'
### - miller himself trimmed/skimmed the above quote from the original quotation
before placing it in the opening pages of his own above book (nice one henry! ;-)
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