Nature's task is done, this unselfish task which our sweet nurse, nature, had imposed upon herself.

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Nature's task is done, this unselfish task which our sweet nurse, nature, had imposed upon herself. She gently took the self-forgetting soul by the hand, as it were, and showed him all the experiences in the universe, all manifestations, bringing him higher and higher through various bodies, till his lost glory came back, and he remembered his own nature. Then the kind mother went back the same way she came, for others who also have lost their way in the trackless desert of life.

Source Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga, Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms - Independence, §17 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Swami Vivekananda, Nature is like a gentle nurse: she takes the soul by the hand, leads it through every experience until it remembers its true nature, then goes back to help other lost souls. Today, look at what you are living through, even the hard parts, as a lesson gently offered, and take the time to help, in your turn, someone who is looking for their way.

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