"Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it."
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"That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great."
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"This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion."
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"Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals."
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"Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind."
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"Do you have the belief in you to move on, even when the whole world is against you, with swords in their hands?"
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"Have faith in your destiny"
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"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."
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"One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds."
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"This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion."
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"Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance."
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"We must get out of materialism."
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"We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings."
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"Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world."
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"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it."
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"The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image."
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"To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills."
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"The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning."
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"Business is business, no child's play."
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"The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm."
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