“If I do an evil action, I must suffer for it; there is no power in this universe to stop or stay it.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Swâmi Vivekânanda on Râja Yoga (1899), Ch. VI : Pratyâhâra and Dhâraṇâ

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Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863–1902

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