Ocupation: Author
Life: January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902
Birthday: January 12
Death: July 4
If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all anxiety. One who desires a comfortable and nice life and at the same time wants to realize the Self is like the fool who, wanting to cross the river, caught hold of a crocodile, mistaking it for a log of wood.
source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com
topic: Nice, Self, Rivers, Nice Life