Vivekananda

Purity forms the absolute bedrock of spirituality. Purity of heart comprises frankness, innocence, straightforwardness and absence of all evil thoughts. Only the pure in heart can attain to Samadhi (God-realization). Through his narration of enclosed story, Swami Vivekananda, who had himself attained to Nirvikalpa Samadhi, has tried to emphasize this very truth. This story which was a favorite of Swamiji’s, having been recounted to him over and over again in his childhood by his nurse, was retold by him to a small group of disciples at Thousand Island Park, in America.