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It is through the heart that the Lord is seen, and not through the intellect. The intellect is only the street-cleaner, cleansing the path for us, a secondary worker, the policeman; but the policeman is not a positive necessity for the workings of society. He is only to stop disturbances, to check wrong-doing, and that is all the work required of the intellect. When you read intellectual books, you think when you have mastered them, "Bless the Lord that I am out of them", because the intellect is blind and cannot move of itself, it has neither hands nor feet. It is feeling that works, that moves with speed infinitely superior to that of electricity or anything else.
Source Vivekananda, Practical Vedanta and other lectures, Practical Vedanta: Part I, §21 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Swami Vivekananda, it is the heart, not the intellect, that sees the Lord: the intellect is useful, like a street-cleaner clearing the road, but it is feeling that moves us forward. Today, before a decision or an encounter, once you have thought it through, take a moment to ask your heart what it feels, and let it guide your action.
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