Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

According to the Vedanta the ideal of man is the immediate and direct realization (aparokstinubhUti) of Brahman as non-diffeent from his own Self (Atman) for from the standpoint of the highest Truth Brahman alone is real and all else is an appearance of name and form. [...] It is not for the sake of the wife my beloved that the wife is dear but for the sake of the Self. [...] The soul of Vivekananda was impatient for the sacrifice of at least a thousand young men fired with the zeal of holiness fortified with eternal faith in the Lord and nerved to lion's courage to bring about a new state of things—sympathy for the poor and bread to their hungry mouths enlightenment to the people at large and struggle unto death to make men of them who have been brought to the le [...] lack of funds for the upkeep of the houses and the gardens dearth of workers to look after the growing establishment and management of the prperty increasingly being added on to the Ashrama. [...] Indeed there was no escape! The Convention reviewed the ideas ideals and achievements of the Order reshaped many methods of work infused fresh zeal into the hearts of the members for working out further the objects of the Mission.