"The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all."
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"There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours as we should wish them to love us; Hinduism asks us to love them as ourselves, in fact to see ourselves in them."
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"Man is a degeneration of what he was."
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"What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth."
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"No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . ."
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"Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation."
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"Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery and would exist if all humanity forgets it, so it is with the laws that govern the spiritual world. The moral, ethical and spiritual relations between soul and soul and between individual spirits and the Father of all spirits were there before their discovery and would remain even if we forget them."
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"Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first."
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"The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas."
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"A point of rest alone explains motion."
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"Every atom is trying to go and join itself to the next atom. Atoms after atoms combine, making huge balls, the earths, the suns, the moons, the stars, the planets. They in their turn, are trying to rush towards each other, and at last, we know that the whole universe, mental and material, will be fused into one."
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"I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ."
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"That is the great fact which you ought to remember. We are the children of the Almighty, we are sparks of the infinite, divine fire. How can we be nothings? We are everything, ready to do everything, we can do everything, and man must do everything."
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"Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . ."
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"Come out into the Universe of Light. Everything in the Universe is Yours, stretch out your arms and Embrace it with Love"
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"To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal."
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"We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth"
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"We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion."
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"The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man."
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"India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die."
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