Swami Vivekananda - Kolkata - Close up

Crop of Swamiji from the Bosepara Lane group. ❊ ❊ ❊ The highest ideal of Ishvara which the human mind can grasp is the avatara. Beyond this there is no relative knowledge. Such knowers of Brahman are rarely born in the world. And very few people can understand them. They alone are the proof of the truths of the scriptures—the towers of light in the ocean of the world. By the company of such avataras and by their grace, the darkness of the mind disappears in a trice and realization flashes immediately in the heart. (CW [1979] 7:199)