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We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.
If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing else.
Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.
Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.
If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.
It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.
We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.
When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.
Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.
Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working
Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.
In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door.
However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.
We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.
Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.
When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates.
The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.
"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.
Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.
To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.
Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.
There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.
Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble.
The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass.
Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.
As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form.
...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.
Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.
This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot.
Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.
Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.
A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.
With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be burned down.
No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.
The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .
When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.
Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.
As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.
No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.
Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.
I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.
Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?