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26/10/17, 7:00 AM - Duta: Swami Vivekananda:
Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great
chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all
bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.
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Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long
run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the
circle.

Do not look back upon what has been done. Go ahead!

Do you think these sannyasi children of Sri Ramakrishna are born to simply to sit
under trees lighting dhuni-fires? Whenever any of them will take up some work,
people will be astonished to see their energy. Learn from them how to work.

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart.
But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits
their taste.

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every
action that retards it is evil.

Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force
has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is
born with this force at our back.

Every step I take in light is mine forever.

Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but
we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong
life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from
this evil spirit of fear.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before
you, and out of that will come great work.

Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body
that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and
hope in yourself.

Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the
senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are
miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.

God is merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for realization.
But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never
come.

God is not to be reached by the weak. Never be weak. You have infinite strength
within you. How else will you conquer anything? How else will you come to God?
God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature,
the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him,
whether we know it or not.

God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual
realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace
will never come.

Have faith in Guru, in his teachings, and in the surety that you can get free.
Think day and night that this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to
get free.

Have you got the will to surmount mountain-high obstructions? If the whole world
stands against you sword in hand, would you still dare to do what you think is
right?

He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the
voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the
voice was wrong.

Him I call a Mahatma ("great soul") whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he
is a Duratma ('wicked soul'). Let us unite our wills in continued prayer for their
good.

However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is
there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.

I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the
poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel
for them!

I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives
us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish,
gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.

I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and
chicaneries, its books and blackguardism, its fair faces and false hearts, its
howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all,
its sanctified shopkeeping!

I have been asked many times, 'Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes?' I
become serious sometimes--when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness.
He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in
everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are
to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from
Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery
vanishes.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from
anyone anything they really deserve.

If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God?
What is the use of such a God? Throw such a God overboard into the Pacific Ocean.
We do not want such a God!

If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man's head, see how he struggles to

throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really
understand that they are slaves of nature.

If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If
you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge
of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

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.

If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are
only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints;
they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.

Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden.
But the real you is already perfect, already strong.

In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion
practical and bringing it to everyone's door. In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous
intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything. We want
today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the
wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest
philosophy. Science and religion will meet and shake hands. Poetry and philosophy
will become friends.What! Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked
but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into
a moth, they sir, had time--and you have no time!

In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at
all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will
get in meditation.

In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no
return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep
out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of
our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and
find the Infinite. The Infinite must be sought in that alone which is infinite, and
the only thing infinite about us is that which is within us, our own soul. Neither
the body, nor the mind, nor even our thoughts, nor the world we see around us, is
infinite.

It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical
religion--the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you
may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for
nothing. But to get the higher.

It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount
of intellectual activity can reach God.

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good.

It is only work that is done as a free-will offering to humanity and to nature that
does not bring with it any binding attachment.

It is the cheerful mind that is persevering. It is the strong mind that hews its
way through a thousand difficulties.

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth,
which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. If we can bring ourselves down by
our karma, surely it is in our power to raise ourselves by our own karma.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way
to know.

Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all
other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of
them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in
the face of death. Do not repent, do not brood over past deeds. Be free.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the
heart that is the seat of all power. It is not in the brain but in the heart that
the Atman, possessed of knowledge, power, and activity, has its seat.

Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions, who are held
fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny. Pray day and night for them. I care more
to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich. I am no metaphysician, no
philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor.

Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every
excess will be followed by a reaction.

Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the
world and see it only as a picture. We can then enjoy the world without being in
any way affected by it.

Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.

Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be
spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.

Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that
there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for
anything else.

Look here--we shall die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will
wake up. Only then will meanness vanish from you, practicality in work will come,
you will get new vigor in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you
will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you.

Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can
only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have
the privilege.

Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you,
you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year you are bound to love me. It
is a well-known psychological phenomenon.

May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may
worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all
souls--and, above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of
all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship.

Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the
thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you
meditate, you will keep your growth.

Mind you, this is life's experience: if you really want the good of others, the
whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before
your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish.

My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a
mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized.
The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of
the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples
of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not
the person.

Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long
run, nature did her work through you, and when you die your body will make other
plants grow. Yet we think all the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus
the wheel goes round.

Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda
is in nature, is born and dies; but the Self we see as Vivekananda is never born
and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality.

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing.
Do not merely endure; be unattached.

No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one
needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be
with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person.

No one should be judged by their defects. The virtues a person has are his
especially; his errors are the common weaknesses of humanity and should never be
counted in estimating his character.

Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of
simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?

One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth.

Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in
ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never
have faith in God.

Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything.
Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through selfless work.

Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already.You and I, and all
beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.

Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.

Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods
there are ...but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above
all, love.

Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the
human mind can have.

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference
between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and
monstrosities.

Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you
will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the
senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same
ratio.

Renunciation is the very basis of our true life. Every moment of goodness and real
life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor
who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them!

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A

perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted, cannot find the truth. One has
to be free, and as broad as the sky.

Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn't it be better for
the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he can become God? Yes. But the poor pig
does not think so at the time. Which state is my individuality? When I was a baby
sprawling on the floor trying to swallow my thumb? Was that the individuality I
should be sorry to lose? Fifty years hence I shall look upon this present state and
laugh, just as I now look upon the baby state. Which of these individualities shall
I keep?

Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the
universe.

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throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and
only cause.

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