golden words of swami vivekananda
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GOLDEN WORDS OF
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
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When there is a conflict between the
heart and the brain, let the heart be
followed.
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A man of intellect can
turn into a devil, but never a man
of heart.
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Religion is not a theoretical need but a practical
necessity.
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Renunciation does not mean
simply dispassion for the world. It
means dispassion for the world and
also longing for God.
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There is no misery where
there is no want.
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The secret of life is not
enjoyment, but education through
experience.
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Every new thought must
create opposition.
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Renunciation is the withdrawal of mind from
other things and concentrating it
on God.
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Every man who thinks ahead of his time is sure
to be misunderstood.
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In this short life there is no time
for the exchange of compliments.
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Do not wait to cross the river when the water
has all run down.
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The greatest sin is fear.
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Better the scolding of the wise than the
adulation of the fools.
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If you love God's creation more than God, you
will be disillusioned.
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Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth
can't be sacrificed for
anything.
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God has become man,
man will become god
again.
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If it is impossible to
attain perfection here and now,
there is no proof that we can
attain perfection in any other life.
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That part of the Vedas which agrees with reason is the Vedas, and
nothing else.
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If you want to
do anything evil, do it before the
eyes of your superiors.
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Happiness presents itself before man, wearing the
crown of sorrow on its head.
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If one is a slave to his passions
and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real
freedom.
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If you can't attain salvation in this life, what proof is there that you can
attain it in the life or lives to
come?
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Never mind if your
contribution is only a mite,
your help only a little, blades of grass united
into a rope will
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hold in confinement the
maddest of elephants.
The cow never tells a lie, and the
stone never steals, but,
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cow remains a cow and the
stone remains a stone. Man steals and man tells a
lie, and again it is man that
becomes the god.
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When even man never hears the cries of the fool,
do you think God will?
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Strength is life, weakness is
death.
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Never are the wants of a
beggar fulfilled.
We want the education by
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which character is formed,
strength of mind is increased, the
intellect is expanded, and
by which one can stand on one's
own feet.
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Let the heart be opened first,
and all else will follow of itself.
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Tell the man his defaults directly
but praise his virtues before
others.
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Activity is life and inactivity is
death.
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Salvation is not achieved by
inactivity but by spiritual
activities.
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Even the least work done for
others awakens the power
within.
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New things have to be learned,
have to be introduced and worked out, but
is that to be done by
sweeping away all that is old, just because it
is old?
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The man who says he has
nothing more to learn is already at his last grasp
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As long as I live, so do I learn.
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No one can save a person who
hires a carriage to go from one
street to another, and
then complain of diabetes.
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By the control of the
subconscious mind you get
control over the conscious.
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It is the constant
struggle against nature that constitutes
human progress, not
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conformity with it.
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The very essence of
education is concentration of
mind, not the collecting of
facts.
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As we get further and
further away from sense-pleasures,
“knowledge for the sake of knowledge” becomes the
supreme pleasure of
mind.
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It is through the many that we reach the one.
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The soul is the circle of which
the circumference is nowhere, but the
center is the body. God is a circle whose
circumference is nowhere, but
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whose center is everywhere.
The body itself is the biggest
disease.
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If any one of you believes
what I teach, I will be sorry. I will only be too
glad if I can
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excite in you the power of
thinking for yourselves.
When the world is the end and God the means to attain that end, that is
material. When
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God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that
end, spirituality has begun.
The fear of God is the beginning of religion, but
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the love of God is the end of
religion.
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Do not give up anything!
Things will give you up.
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The sage is often ignorant of
physical science, because he reads the wrong book- the book within; and the scientist
is too often ignorant of
religion, because he reads the
wrong book- the book without.
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Experience is the only source of
knowledge.
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Do one thing at a time and while doing it put your whole soul into
it to the exclusion of all
else.
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Where there is life, there will be
death; so get away from life if you want to get
rid of death.
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Records of great spiritual men of the past do us
no good whatever
except that they urge us onward to do the same, to experience
religion ourselves.
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We may read all the Bibles of the world, but that will not give us
religion.
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The brave alone can afford to be
sincere.
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The balance is so nice that if
you disturb the equilibrium of one atom, the
whole world will come to an end.
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Save the spiritual store in
your body by observing
continence.
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The wicked see in God
wickedness. The virtuous see in
Him virtue.
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When good nectar is
unattainable, it is no reason
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why we should eat poison.
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Love to enemies is not possible
for ordinary men.
Everything that comes from India take as
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true, until you cogent reasons for disbelieving it. Everything
that comes from Europe take as false, until you
find cogent reasons for believing it.
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The benefit of Yoga is that we learn to control instead of being
controlled.
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Never talk about the faults of others, no
matter how bad they may be.
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All quarrels and disputations concerning
religion simply show that
religion is not present.
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You must not criticize others,
you must criticize yourself.
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What you have inside you is
what you see in others.
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Our business is to verify not to
swallow.
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How can that be loveless which causes love in
me?
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You cannot judge a man by
his faults.
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You must believe in
yourself and then you will
believe in God.
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If you are pure, if you are
strong, you, one man, is equal to the whole world.
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Mother represents
colorless love that knows no
barter, love that never dies.
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We trust the man in the
street, but there is one being in
the universe we
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never trust and that is God.
My motto is to learn whatever good things I may come
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across anywhere.
The secret of religion lies not
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in theories but in practice.
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Seek for the highest, aim at
the highest, and you shall reach
the highest.
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There is an ocean of
difference between
idleness and renunciation.
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The self-seeking man who is looking after
personal comforts and leading a lazy life, there is no room for him even in hell.
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Hope is the greatest of all miseries, the
highest bliss lies in giving up
hope.
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No one ever succeeded in
keeping society in good humor
and at the same
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time did great works.
Know that talking ill of
others in private is a sin.
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This Atman is not to be
attained by one who is weak.
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Whatever fosters
materiality is no work.
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Why look up to men for
approbation, look up to God.
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He who knows how to obey
knows how to command.
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Want of sympathy and lack of energy
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are at the root of all misery.
India is the only place where,
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with all its faults, the soul
finds its freedom, its
God.
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It is the heart that conquers, not the brain.
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All the strength is in you, have
faith in it.
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The body must go no mistake about that. It is better to wear
out than to rust out.
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In every attempt there
are many obstacles to
cope with, but gradually the path becomes
smooth.
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One must raise oneself by one's own exertions.
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Both attachment and
detachment perfectly
developed make a man great and
happy.
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Where there is struggle, where
there is rebellion, there is a sign of life,
there consciousness is
manifested.
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Isn't it man that makes money? Where did you ever hear of
money making man?
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He who always speculates as to what awaits him
in future, accomplishes
nothing whatsoever.
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Fear is one of the worst enemies.
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If one intends to really find truth,
one must not cling to comfort.
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We manufacture our own heaven and can make a heaven even in
hell.
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The satisfaction of desire only
increases it, as oil poured on fire makes it burn more fiercely.
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Both happiness and misery are chains, the one
golden, the other iron; but
both are equally strong to bind
us.
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The world is neither true nor untrue, it is a
shadow of truth.
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Let us get rid of the little 'I' and
let only the great 'I' live in
us.
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Concentration of the mind is the
source of all knowledge.
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Keep your thoughts on
virtue; what we think we become.
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What we are, we see outside, for the world is
our mirror.
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Resist not evil. Face it! You are higher than evil.
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Anything we do ourselves, that is the only thing
we do. -----
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Be cautious now and do not bow, however sweet
to chains.
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Anything that brings spiritual,
mental or physical
weakness, touch it not with the toes of your
feet.
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Everything that has selfishness
for its basis, competition as its right hand, and enjoyment
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as its goal, must die sooner or
later.
This is a battlefield, fight your way out.
Make your life a
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manifestation of will
strengthened by renunciation.
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Be the witness, never learn to
react.
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The Hindus believe that a man is a soul
and has a body, while Western people believe
he is a body and possesses a
soul.
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Of all the scriptures of the world, it is the Vedas alone
which declare that the study of
the Vedas is secondary.
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I find that whenever I have made a mistake in my life, it has
always been because self
entered into the calculation.
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Never forget that a man is
made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues.
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If a bad time comes, what of
it? The pendulum must swing back to the other side. But that is no better. The
thing to do is to stop it.
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This world is our friend when we are its slaves and no more.
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Whatever others think or do,
lower not your standard of
purity, morality, and love of God.
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The road to the Good is the
roughest and steepest in the
universe. Character has to
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be established through a thousand stumbles.
Eating, drinking, dressing, and
society
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nonsense are not things to throw a life
upon.
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He who is always afraid of
loss always loses.
Any amount of theoretical
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knowledge one may have; but
unless one does the thing actually,
nothing is learnt.
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Don't yield to sorrow;
everything is in God's hands.
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In our moments of anguish,
gates barred for ever seem to
open and let in many a flood of
light.
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Every bit of pleasure will
bring its quota of pain, if not
with compound interest.
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If one gets one blow, one must return ten with redoubled fury, then only one is
a man.
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Don't let egoism to enter your minds, and let
love never depart from your hearts.
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It is a land of dreams; it does
not matter whether one
enjoys or weeps; they are but dreams, and
as such, must
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break sooner or later.
He whose joy is only in himself, whose desires
are only in himself, he has
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learned his lessons.
I have worked for this world,
Mary, all my life, and it does not
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give me a piece of bread without taking a pound
of flesh.
Devotion to the mother is the
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root of all welfare.
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It is religion, the inquiry into the beyond, that makes the difference
between man and animal.
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Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out
in your life.
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Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you
must be rejected.
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The same fire that cooks a
meal for us may burn a child,
and it is no fault of the fire if it does so; the
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difference lies in the way in
which it is used.
Whatever you think, that you
will be.
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The moment you quarrel, you
are not going God ward, you
are going
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backward, towards the
brutes.
First learn to obey, the
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command will come by itself.
If there is any sin in the world, it is weakness;
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avoid all weakness, for
weakness is sin, weakness is
death.
In other countries great
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priests try to trace their
descent to some king, but here the greatest kings would trace their
descent to some ancient priest.
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We, as Vedantists,
know for certain that there is no
power in the universe to
injure us unless we first injure
ourselves.
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Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in
God – this is the secret of
greatness.
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To have the ideal is one
thing, and to apply it
practically to the details of
daily life is quite another thing.
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One ounce of practice is worth
twenty thousand tons
of big talk.
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Let not your work produce
results for you, and at the same
time may you be never
without work.
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Religion is not in books, nor in
theories, nor in dogmas, nor in
talking, not even in
reasoning. It is
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being and becoming.
This Atman is not to be
reached by too much talk, no,
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not even by the highest intellect, no, not even by
the study of Vedas
themselves.
Whoever has dared to touch
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our literature has felt the
bondage, and is there bound for
ever.
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If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who
has got by heart a whole library.
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No good comes out of the man who day and
night thinks he is nobody.
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Follies there are, weakness there
must be, but remember your
real nature always – that is the only way to
cure the weakness, that is
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the only way to cure the follies.
Everything in this life is
fraught with fear. It is
renunciation
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alone that makes one fearless.
The true man is he who is strong
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as strength itself and
possesses a woman's heart.
Verily, these three are rare to
obtain and come only
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through the grace of God - human birth,
desire to obtain Moksha, and the company of the
great-souled ones.
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Why should you feel ashamed to take the name of Hindu, which is your greatest
and most glorious
possession.
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This religion is so great that
even a little of it brings a great
amount of good.
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Don't believe what others say
unless you yourselves know
it to be true.
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Rise at the expense of
another? I did not come to
earth for that.
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Show your power by suffering.
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Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached
to something.
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The man who can't believe in
himself, how can you expect
him to believe in anything else?
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It is better to do something;
never mind if it proves to be wrong; it is better than
doing nothing.
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If we can't follow the ideal, let us confess our weakness,
but not degrade it; let not any try to pull it
down.
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If a man possesses
everything that is under the sun
and does not possess
spirituality, what avails it?
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First form character, first earn spirituality and results will
come of themselves.
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If we sit down and lament over the imperfection
of our bodies and minds, we
profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavor to
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subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upwards.
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Truth, purity and
unselfishness – wherever these
are present, there is no
power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof.
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No claim is made by the doer of great
deeds, only by lazy worthless
fools.
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To know God is to become God.
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Bring in the light; the
darkness will vanish of itself.
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Ours not to question why, ours but to do
and die.
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Education is the manifestation of the perfection
already in man. Religion is the
manifestation of the divinity
already in man.
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Conscious efforts lead the way to super-
conscious illumination.
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Who commits mistakes, the
path of truth is attainable by
him only.
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He, the brave alone, can deny
the self.
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And if this Maya is so beautiful,
think of the wondrous
beauty of the
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Reality behind it.
For one thing we may be
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grateful; this life is not eternal.
When the mind tries to think of anything else,
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give it a hard blow, so that it
may turn around and
think of God.
If I am impure, that is also of
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my own making, and that very
thing shows that I can be pure if I
will.
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Stand and die in your own
strength; if there is any sin
in the world, it is weakness; avoid
all weakness, for weakness is sin, weakness is
death.
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I do not know whether I
succeed or not, but it is a great thing to take up a grand ideal in
life and then give up one's
whole life to it.
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In the west, they are trying
to solve the problem how
much a man can possess, and we are trying here
to solve the problem on how
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little a man can live.
It is the change of the soul itself
for the better that alone will
cure the evils of the world.
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Teach yourself, teach every one his real nature, call upon the sleeping soul
and see how it awakes.
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Power will come, glory will come, goodness will
come, purity will come, and
everything that is excellent will come, when this sleeping soul is roused to self
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conscious activity.
You have done well; only try to
do better.
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Work out the salvation of this land and of the whole world, each of you
thinking that the entire burden is
on your shoulders.
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Let not the fire die out.
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Is it such a bad choice in this world to think, not of matter
but of spirit, not of man but of
God?
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If you attempt to get the
secular knowledge
without religion, I tell you plainly,
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vain is your attempt.
Anything that makes you
weak physically, intellectually,
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and spiritually, reject as poison; there is no life in it; it cannot
be true.
Love opens the most impossible
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gates; love is the gate to all the secrets of the universe.
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Never let curses rise on your lips.
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Feel that you are great and you become
great.
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You can't help anyone, you can
only serve: serve the
children of the Lord, serve the Lord himself, if you have the
privilege.
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The moment you fear you are
nobody. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the
world.
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Struggle for that Grace.
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If a man goes towards what is
false; it is because he
can't get what is true.
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Knowledge is the finding of
unity in diversity, and the highest
point in every
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science is reached when it
finds the underlying unity
in all variety.
Obey the scriptures until
you are not
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strong enough to do without
them.
Help, if you can; if you can't fold
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your hands and stand by and see things go
on.
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Until a man becomes a
prophet, religion is a mockery.
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Be not in despair; the way is very difficult, like walking on the blade of a
razor. Yet despair not; arise, awake, and find the
ideal, the goal.
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Death is better than a
vegetating ignorant life; it is better to die
on the battlefield than to live a life of
defeat.
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When you find yourselves
suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.
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The highest direction is that which takes us to God; every other direction
is lower.
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Understand my words in their true spirit and
apply yourselves to work in their
light.
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I want the why of everything. I
leave the how to children.
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