The Call of Sri Krishna: The Gospel of Super Excellence - 2. : Swami Krishnananda
25/08/2018 The Call of Sri Krishna: The Gospel of Super Excellence -2. : Swami Krishnananda (Talk given on Janmashtami, Sri Krishna's birthday.) Modern thinkers have made a strong plea for the cultivation of super excellence. Thus Emerson wrote: "If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbour, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." Similarly Swett Marden said: "There is a fitness in doing a thing superlatively well, because we seem to be made for expressing excellence." In his book, Excellence, J.W. Gardner, President of the Carnegie Foundation, writes: "Excellence implies more than competence. It implies a striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. We need individual excellence in all its forms, in every kind of creative endeavour, in political life, in education, in industry – in short, universally!" "An effect...