Swami Vivekananda - London Photo series

During his classes on jnana yoga: Swamiji seemed to rise to a state bordering on the divine—awesome and yet infinitely gracious. [Mahendra Nath Datta, one of Swamiji’s younger brothers, remarked] “Face shining, he had lost his human nature and seemed like someone from a higher plane, as if his previous self had vanished and in its place there stood a powerful being.” 42 ❊ ❊ ❊ When it is all One, who is there to hate, who is there to struggle with? When it is all He, with whom can you fight? This explains the true nature of life; this explains the true nature of being. This is perfection, and this is God. (JY, 265)