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Divine grace and human effort are essential for peace and progress, success and expansion, equanimity and enlightenment. The whole of the Gita speaks of the need for them both. All the yogas directly and indirectly have their thrust on them both.
Divine grace is symbolised in Sri Krishna and human endeavour is symbolised in Arjuna who is a savyasachi capable of darting the arrows with both the hands, keeping the bow under the toe.
Sri Krishna is the lord of yoga and Arjuna is an adept in archery. Wherever you find them both, there you are sure to see success and bliss.
Divine grace and personal effort, deep meditation and dynamic actions are the observe and reverse of the coin yoga. By the grace of God we become yogis and by yogic practices we win divine grace. Swami Vivekananda has combined in him both, that is, broad vision and deep and serious thinking through meditation and tremendous activities like those of a great warrior, which brought victory, prosperity and glory to him and to the country as well.
Swami Vivekananda is a Yogi. He by his hard work has won the divine grace. He is, therefore, able to win all. Wherever he went, he was worshipped. Wherever he spoke, he won admiration. He kept the audiences spell bound by his oratory of divine ideas and words. People flocked round him as disciples offering money and service. He became a global figure. Many a foreigner including Margaret Noble (Sister Nivedita) came to India to serve Indians.
With the people and prosperity thus overflowing, he established the Ramakrishna Order for the benefit of mankind in every aspect. Divine grace worked through him because he was a fit instrument.
"Life is short, but the soul is immortal and eternal, and one thing being certain, death, let us therefore take up a great ideal and give up our whole life to it. Let this be our determination, and may He, the Lord, who "comes again and again for the salvation of His own people", to quote from our scriptures-may the great Krishna bless us and lead us all to the fulfilment of our aims!"--- Swami Vivekananda
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