"The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation."
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"Marriage and sex and money the only living devils."
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"I reached Ghazipur three days ago. Here I am putting up in the house of Babu Satish Chandra Mukherji, a friend of my early age. The place is very pleasant. Close by flows the Ganga, but bathing there is troublesome, for there is no regular path, and it is hard work wading through sands."
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"Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress."
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"All real progress must be slow."
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"All progression is in the relative world."
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"Salvation never will come through hope of reward."
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"The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or two things well with very little effort, having practiced them every day through generations."
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"Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work."
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"God is pure, and the same to all."
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"Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite."
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"We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels."
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"To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage."
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"The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer, the being in the body who is working the body by means of the internal organ or the mind."
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"The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay."
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"Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God."
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"Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment."
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"All misery and pain come from attachment."
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"As the cause is, so the effect will be."
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"It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth is enjoyed by heroes" - this is the unfailing truth."
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