"Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage."
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"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."
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"To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that is vibrant and valiant; a Buddhistic heart overflowing with compassion and kindness and Christian limbs of service and sacrifice."
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"Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . ."
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"Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion."
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"When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates."
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"Prana, according to the Vedanta, is the principle of life. It is like ether, an omnipresent principle; and all motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana. It is greater than Akasha, and through it everything lives. Prana is in the mother, in the father, in the sister, in the teacher, Prana is the knower."
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"Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself."
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"Let us blame none, let us blame our own Karma."
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"Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go."
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"If one has got power, one must manifest it in action."
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"Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches."
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"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?"
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"Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish."
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"Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God."
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"Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that period the national life had this one end in view, viz how to make us weaker and weaker, till we have become real earthworms, crawling at the feet of every one who dares to put his foot on us. Therefore my friends, as one of your blood, as one that lives and dies with you, let me tell you that we want strength, strength, and every time strength."
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"That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material."
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"Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this Shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow."
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"The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet."
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"Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all."
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