"The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful"
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"Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection."
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"You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . ."
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"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."
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"I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true."
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"The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel"
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"Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!"
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"If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better."
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"Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice."
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"In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is."
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"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."
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"Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only."
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"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."
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"He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?"
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"Man is the nearest approach to Brahman."
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"Do not say we are weak; we can do anything and everything. What can we not do? Everything can be done by us; we all have the same glorious soul, let us believe in it."
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"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."
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"In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything."
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"It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable because we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we are weak. We die because we are weak. Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death nor sorrow. We are miserable through delusion. Give up the delusion and the whole thing vanishes."
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"In a difficulty in the company of the central and the instigator, be successful your central."
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