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"Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested."
"Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born to do great things! Let not the barks of puppies frighten you, no, not even the thunderbolts of heaven, but stand up and work!"
"Alcohol is not the answer to all questions"
"Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible."
"This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do."
"All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion - all these various forces resolve into that Prana, and the vibration of the Prana ceases. In that state it remains until the beginning of the next cycle. Prana then begins to vibrate, and that vibration acts upon the Akasha, and all these forms are thrown out in regular succession."
"Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain."
"A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him."
"From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion."
"The earth is enjoyed by heroes”—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear."
"Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self."
"I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance."
"Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal."
"Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery."
"You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength"
"The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire."
"Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction."
"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."
"The sum total of all the cells in an organism is one person; so each soul is like one cell and the sum of them is God, and beyond that is the Absolute."
"Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood."