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Our duty is to sympathise with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer. The world is a grand moral gymnasium wherein we have all to take exercise so as to become stronger and stronger spiritually. We ought not to be fanatics of any kind, because fanaticism is opposed to love.
Source Vivekananda, Karma-Yoga, We help ourselves, not the world, §6 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Swami Vivekananda, the world is like a great gymnasium where we practise sympathising with the weak and loving even the wrongdoer, and all fanaticism is opposed to love. Today, choose someone you judge harshly and sincerely wish them well.
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