"Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion."
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"Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child."
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"In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God's feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls."
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"We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best."
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"A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has stuck into the foot, another thorn is requisitioned, and when the thorn is taken out, both are thrown away. So the bad tendencies are to be counteracted by the good ones, but after that, the good tendencies have also to be conquered."
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"This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages."
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"The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent."
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"Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of Man - the Atman."
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"Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind."
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"God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed."
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"We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything."
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""Why should I become angry just because another man has made a fool of himself. Do thou resist not evil!" That is what the lovers of God say. Whatever the world does, wherever it goes, has no influence [on them]."
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"The ignorant man never enjoys."
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"The God which cannot give me food in this world, cannot give me Heaven in the other world"
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"Not one is constant, but everything is changing."
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"Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!"
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"Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore!"
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"God is not to be reached by the weak. Never be weak. You have infinite strength within you. How else will you conquer anything? How else will you come to God?"
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"Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. Everyone must work out his own salvation."
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"The weak, the fearful, the ignorant will never reach the Atman. You cannot undo what you have done; the effect must come. Face it, but be careful never to do the same thing again. Give up the burden of all deeds to God. Give all, both good and bad. God helps those who do not help themselves."
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