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Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.
Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!
Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.
Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.
The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.
Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.
Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.
Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?
The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart.
What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment.
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.
I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.
The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration.
Free thyself from the mighty attraction- The maddening wine of love, the charm of sex. Break the harp! Forward, with the ocean's cry!. . .
The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.
We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . .
It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour.
A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.
Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!
"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.
See what an atmosphere of holiness is here the pure air of the Ganga what an assemblage of Sadhus will you find anywhere a place like this!
I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me.
The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it.
Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom.
Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.
Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.
The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.
Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.
We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.
When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.
See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place for a Math. (in Belur, West Bengal).
Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?
The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.
What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.
This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.
Purusha is the; great attraction of the universe; though untouched by and unconnected with the universe, yet it attracts the whole; universe.
It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality, background, status.
All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for it comes from God. A pure and strong will is omnipotent.
Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.
In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God's feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.
The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.