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"This is the only way to reach the goal, to tell ourselves, and to tell everybody else, that we are divine. And as we go on repeating this, strength comes. He who falters at first will get stronger and stronger, and the voice will increase in volume until the truth takes possession of our hearts, and courses through our veins, and permeates our bodies."
"The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures."
"What we want now is an immense awakening of Râjasika energy, for the whole country is wrapped in the shroud of Tamas. The people of this land must be fed and clothed-must be awakened -must be made more fully active. Otherwise they will become inert, as inert as trees and stones. So, I say, eat large quantities of fish and meat, my boy!"
"The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration."
"How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn."
"The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand."
"Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities."
"Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion."
"Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is dreadful idolatry; but if one kneels before husband or wife, it is quite permissible!"
"Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe."
"The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire."
"Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him."
"Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana."
"I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till I have finished it. And oh, how shall I speak of him? Oh, his love for me!"
"We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles."
"Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within a certain limit-if he can get rid of the bondage of hunger or of being thirsty. But that sage feels that there is a stronger bondage which has to be thrown off. He would not consider the freedom of the Red Indian as freedom at all."
"Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work."
"The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals"
"Perfection can never be attained by work."
"With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?"