"The correct meaning of the statement The Vedas are beginningless and eternal is that the law or truth revealed by them is permanent and changeless."
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"See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place for a Math. (in Belur, West Bengal)."
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"What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces."
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"Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching shows the influence of Buddhism. His disciples perverted his teaching and carried it to such an extreme point that some of the later reformers were right in calling the Acharya's followers "crypto-buddhists"."
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"One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory."
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"What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you."
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"We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran."
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"The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful."
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"One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth."
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"Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?"
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"You will be nearer to Heaven through foot ball than through study of Gita."
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"This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived... Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that look forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much higher, than she ever was."
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"In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door."
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"We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you... He is everywhere, saying, "I am." The moment you feel "I am," you are conscious of Existence. Where shall we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?"
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"The book is all in us. Fool, hearest not thou? In thine own heart day and night is singing that Eternal Music - Sachchidânanda, soham, soham - Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute, I am He, I am He."
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"In the world take always the position of the giver."
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"Make no conditions and none will be imposed."
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"If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it!"
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"The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets."
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""The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images."
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