This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work when the world has become all good and then he will enjoy bliss is as likely to succeed as the man who sits beside the Ganga and says, I will ford the river when all the water has run into the ocean. β¨ Swami Vivekananda (2015). Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge, p.32, editionNEXT.com
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