Day 12

A COURSE IN MIRACLES

Lesson 12

I am upset because I see a meaningless world

I think I see a fearful world, a dangerous world, a hostile world, a sad world, a wicked, world a crazy world.

But I am upset because I see a meaningless world.

What is meaningless is neither good or bad.  

Why, then, should a meaningless world upset you? 

If you could accept the world as meaningless and let the truth be written upon you, it would make you indescribably happy...

Beneath your words is written the word of God.


CATHOLIC SAINT OF THE DAY
St. Marguerite Bourgeos
During the late 1600's Marguerite established a school for Indian girls in Montreal. At the age of 69, she walked from Montreal to Quebec in response to the bishop’s request to establish a community of her sisters in that city. By the time she died, she was referred to as the “Mother of the Colony.”

Birth of Swami Vivekananda 

from Wikipedia

(Bengali: স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ,  Shami Bibekānondo (help·info); Hindi: स्वामी विवेकानन्द) (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Dutta (Bengali: নরেন্দ্রনাথ দত্ত, Hindi: नरेन्द्रनाथ दत्त ),[2] was the chief disciple of the 19th century saint Ramakrishna Paramahansa and the founder of the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission.[3] He is considered a key figure in the introduction of Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the "Western" World, mainly in America and Europe[3] and is also credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the end of the 19th century C.E.[4] Vivekananda is considered to be a major force in the revival of Hinduism in modern India.[5] He is perhaps best known for his inspiring speech which began: "Sisters and Brothers of America,"[6][7] through which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893.[2]

Swami Vivekananda was born in an aristocratic Bengali kayastha family of Calcutta on January 12, 1863. Vivekananda's parents influenced his thinking—his father by his rationality and his mother by her religious temperament. From his childhood, he showed an inclination towards spirituality and God realization. His guru, Ramakrishna, taught him Advaita Vedanta (non-dualism); that all religions are true and that service to man was the most effective worship of God. After the death of his Guru, Vivekananda became a wandering monk, touring the Indian subcontinent and acquiring first-hand knowledge of conditions in India. He later traveled to Chicago and represented India as a delegate in the 1893 Parliament of World Religions. He conducted hundreds of public and private lectures and classes, disseminating Vedanta and Yoga in America, England and Europe. He also established the Vedanta societies in America and England.