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Swami: A Sanskrit word meaning spiritual preceptor, teacher, learned or holy man; used as an honorary title with proper names.
Swami (Sanskrit) Svāmin An owner, master; occasionally husband; also a spiritual preceptor, a learned Brahmin or pundit. Used as a title of honor at the end of names. In compounds the form svami is used.
swami. ::: literally, "I am mine", in the sense of absolute Self mastership; He who is one with his Self
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Arya Samaj (Sanskrit) Ārya Samāja A movement started in India during the 19th century by Swami Dayanand Sarasvati in order to lead his countrymen back to the pristine purity of their Vedic religion, although under the form of a theistic philosophy, and to free them from the degenerations and demoralizations of the orthodox Brahmanism of the time. It was affiliated for a short time with the Theosophical Society, but the union was soon dissolved because it became evident that the Samaj was not in harmony with the universality of the aims and purposes of the Theosophical Society as had previously been understood. The Samaj gradually spread throughout Northern India to the extent of two or three hundred branches.
Swami: A Sanskrit word meaning spiritual preceptor, teacher, learned or holy man; used as an honorary title with proper names.
Swami (Sanskrit) Svāmin An owner, master; occasionally husband; also a spiritual preceptor, a learned Brahmin or pundit. Used as a title of honor at the end of names. In compounds the form svami is used.
dasbodh. ::: 17th century advaita vedanta spiritual text orally narrated in 1654 by Saint Samarth Ramdas &
Hindi तुलसीदास tulsidas: Indian poet and philosopher Goswami Tulsidas (1532-1623 AD), whose Ramacharitamanasa (Tulsi-krita Ramayana) is often considered to be the Ramayana in Hindi, and thus he is often regarded as an incarnation of Valmiki.
source:https://www.swami-krishnananda.org/glossary/glossary_a.html
Svamin. See SWAMI
swami. ::: literally, "I am mine", in the sense of absolute Self mastership; He who is one with his Self
Viharasvamin (Sanskrit) Vihārasvāmin The svami (swami) or superior of a vihara.
“While the members of the Brahmo Samaj may be designated as the Lutheran Protestants of orthodox Brahmanism, the disciples of the Swami Dyanand [the Arya-Samaj] should be compared to those learned mystics, the Gnostics, who had the key to those earlier writings which, later, were worked over into the Christian gospels and various patristic literature” (BCW 1:382).
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1:and enjoy it. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #KEYS
2:if it is granted to me. ~ Swami Veda Bharati, #KEYS
3:~ Swami Saradananda, Sri Ramakrishna and His Divine Play #KEYS
4:Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
~ Swami Sivananda,#KEYS
5:I have one word for all aspirants 'Meditate'.
~ Sri Swami Sivananda,#KEYS
6:What you should avoid is gossip and worldly talk. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
7:To Him Ramakrishna the World Teacher, my obeisance. ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
8:Set the mind right and not attempt to right the world. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
9:Act now. Live now. Know now. Realize now. Be happy now. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
10:Look after the present and the future will look after itself. ~ Swami Chinmayananda, #KEYS
11:Contentment in all circumstances is the mark of religious life. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
12:The goal of life is not the drama being played, but the lesson that it offers. ~ SWAMI RAMA, #KEYS
13:The standard of success is whether you've pleased God. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #KEYS
14:The brave are always moral. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. V. 3), #KEYS
15:A true Bhakta is greater than God, for he is a giver and not a taker. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
16:As a matter of fact, the company of holy men makes the heart pure forever. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
17:You cannot realize God unless you are perfectly and transparently sincere. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
18:The path of Truth is narrower than the needle's eye and as sharp as a razor's edge. ~ SWAMI RAMA, #KEYS
19:We all have the right to ask for Grace
~ Swami Vivekananda, [T6],#KEYS
20:All work is sadhana. Sadhana is our attempt to get to Him through every action. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
21:Then when a situation comes, you can to an extent, depend on your inner voice. ~ Swami Chinmayananda, #KEYS
22:To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
23:Knowledge alone can make us perfect. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VII. 38), #KEYS
24:He who can accept God as his own, does not suffer so intensely from worldly sorrows. ~ SWAMI SUBODHANANDA, #KEYS
25:The more earnestness you have in your practice, the greater will be the joy. ~ Manapurush Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
26:You feel depressed because your faith is lukewarm. You must cultivate self-confidence. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
27:Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
28:Every great achievement is done slowly. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 332), #KEYS
29:If we are pure, we cannot see impurity. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VII. 63), #KEYS
30:Spiritual progress is a far cry in the midst of selfishness and narrow-mindedness. ~ SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA, #KEYS
31:Do not hate the evil-hearted, the jealous and the selfish. It is they who promote your Mok ~ Swami Sivananda, #KEYS
32:3/ None but the bravest deserves salvation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 479), #KEYS
33:Do not let attachment develop for the body. Rather, protect the body for God realization. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
34:The desire to know God and to love Him cannot be considered a desire in the ordinary sense. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
35:Freedom of the soul is the goal of all Yogas. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 55), #KEYS
36:Those who seek power feed their ego—the ego, which causes all the suffering in the world. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
37:To be brave is to have faith in the Mother. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 149), #KEYS
38:2/ The brave alone can afford to be sincere. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 110), #KEYS
39:All knowledge depends upon calmness of mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VII. 72), #KEYS
40:Non-attachment is the basis of all the Yogas. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 101), #KEYS
41:The ideal of man is to see God in everything. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. II. 152), #KEYS
42:If you can hold on to this knowledge 'I am Self' at all times, no further practice is necessary. ~ Annamalai Swami, #KEYS
43:Let Mother's will be done. Never mind sunshine or rain, we must not forget Mother at any time. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
44:A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 55), #KEYS
45:Constant remembrance of God and ultimate reliance upon Him under all circumstances is Sadhana. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
46:Flying from work is never the way to find peace. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. IV. 130), #KEYS
47:If you say you are bound, bound you will remain. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. II. 350), #KEYS
48:You will have to subjugate your passions and hold fast to the faith that God exists everywhere. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
49:4/ The brave alone do great things, not the cowards. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. V. 86), #KEYS
50:Don't expect anything from anyone! Learn to be the giver! Otherwise you will become self-centered. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
51:The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. II. 465), #KEYS
52:There's no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #KEYS
53:Each man who thinks ahead of his times is sure to be misunderstood. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
54:Maya is like magic and we have to see the magician. But then the path beyond Maya is through Maya. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
55:The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
56:The Vedanta says, there is nothing that is not God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. II. 321), #KEYS
57:When you suffer, you yourself are the cause. Please do not imagine much, and you will be free. ~ SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA, #KEYS
58:The Atman, Self, is the same as Brahman, the Lord. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VIII. 100), #KEYS
59:The only things we should look after is never to forget loving Him, the Master of the Universe. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
60:I am a child of Divine Mother - the source of all power and strength. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
61:It is only those who persevere to the end that succeed. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. V. 31), #KEYS
62:Simply meditating or repeating God's names, without any effort at rooting out the desires, will not do. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
63:Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 281), #KEYS
64:The person who aspires to be a Bhakta must be cheerful. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 69), #KEYS
65:Work Purifies the heart and so leads to Vidya (wisdom). ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VII. 39), #KEYS
66:Latu Maharaj continued: "You didn't understand it? Egoism is what he used to refer to as "mind's dirt". ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
67:Be not self-seeking; try to be desire-less, and take your refuge in the Lord, who is the doer of all good. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
68:A Yogi must avoid the two extremes of luxury and austerity. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 136), #KEYS
69:Go on struggling ceaselessly. Fight like a hero. Never look back, but ever go forward. Onward to the Goal! ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
70:One infinite pure and holy – beyond thought beyond qualities I bow down to thee ~ Swami Vivekananda, Chicago, September 1893, #KEYS
71:Why analyze and see the evil? Move toward the Lord! Through His grace you will be freed from all passions. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
72:Hope is the greatest of miseries, the highest bliss lies in giving up hope. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
73:It is God's grace alone that enables an aspirant to stop the waves of the mind and dissolve the intellect. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
74:Just as money brings benefit, it can in the same way bring harm. Lust and greed are the cause of all ruin. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
75:Pray for knowledge and light, every other prayer is selfish. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 146), #KEYS
76:He only is free who has gained mastery over his passions and one who is a slave to them is bound in chains. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
77:Practice and detachment are necessary to bring one-pointedness to the naturally restless and out-going mind. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
78:Sri Ramakrishna had absolutely no sense of egoism. He lived by giving power of attorney to the Divine Mother. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
79:All our actions in this world will determine our future birth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. II. 256), #KEYS
80:Realization is real religion, all the rest is only preparation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 232), #KEYS
81:The vision of God does not depend on your will - you must depend on His. You must resign yourself completely. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
82:Vedanta does not say, 'Give it up': it says, 'Transcend it'. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VIII. 130), #KEYS
83:Know for certain that He will not leave you. He will never fail you when you cry His name with a longing heart. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
84:The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
85:The world has seen thousands of prophets, and the world has yet to see millions ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
86:Learn to see God in everything about you. Smear God over everything, and your mind will think of Him alone. ~ SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA, #KEYS
87:The more you work to help others, the more you help yourselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 134), #KEYS
88:Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
89:God is both inside and outside you. When you realize that He is within you, your passions will be under control. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
90:It is unhappiness that teaches us more than happiness; it is misery that cleanses our hearts more than enjoyment. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
91:With the sense of possession comes selfishness, and selfishness brings on misery. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
92:Concentration of the powers of the mind is our only instrument to help us see God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
93:The God of Vedanta is a living God. In Him we live, through Him we exist, without Him there cannot exist anything. ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
94:Behind every creature is the 'Mother', pure, lovely, never changing. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VII. 6), #KEYS
95:A spiritual man is happy with the whole existence. He says 'yes' to the whole existence." ~ Swami Dhyan Giten, born in Sweden. Author of, #KEYS
96:Keep watch over yourselves! Struggle to improve yourselves and do not try to reform others. Stick to your own ideal! ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
97:Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 280), #KEYS
98:You must remember that you are His children. But do not let this make you proud. Pride must be given up once for all. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
99:My motto is to learn whatever good things I may come across anywhere. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 234), #KEYS
100:What is that, knowing which we will know everything?
- Vedas? ~ Swami Vivekananda, Rajayoga, 36,#KEYS
101:If you can strictly follow what the Guru has prescribed for the realization of God, everything will be smooth at last. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
102:God is the only existence that is real, all other existences are unreality behind which God exists as the reality. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
103:Know that you are a God and consequently the Lord of the senses. Why should you allow the senses to lord over you? ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
104:Pray, 'Take us by the hand as a father takes his son, and leave us not.' ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 91), #KEYS
105:This is the gist of all worship—to be pure and to do good to others. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 141), #KEYS
106:Unless you are completely detached from everything, your meditation and prayer, work and learning will be of no avail. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
107:Karma in its effect on character is the most tremendous power that man has to deal with. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
108:Divine love must awaken within your hearts and be intensified and crystallized. Then only the vision of God will open up. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
109:If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 425), #KEYS
110:Make japa and meditate daily and remain pure in body, mind, and speech - by that alone you will achieve your life's goal. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
111:Always cultivate pure thoughts. Purity is strength, and purity is God. Live such a life that no one may be an enemy to you. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
112:Through wealth and honour our egotism is bloated up, and there is no greater obstacle in the spiritual path than egotism. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
113:When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all. ~ Swami Chinmayananda, #KEYS
114:You must never cease from calling on the Lord, and know this for certain that the Lord's name cuts through all obstacles. ~ SWAMI SUBODHANANDA, #KEYS
115:Let us make our minds pure, the rest will be easy; and we shall attain spiritual bliss comparable to nothing else in life. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
116:The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 160), #KEYS
117:God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
118:Bhakti-Yoga does not say, 'Give up'; it only says, 'Love, love the Highest !' ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 74), #KEYS
119:Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. V. 104), #KEYS
120:Repeat your mantra several thousand times a day. That will give you strength. If evil thoughts appear be indifferent to them. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
121:Do not blame nature, God, or others. Ninety-nine percent of your problems are self-created. You know it, though you do not accept it. ~ SWAMI RAMA, #KEYS
122:Happiness and misery are only in the senses, they cannot touch our real Self. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VIII. 10), #KEYS
123:One has to pursue devout practices steadily. Otherwise, the little divine inspiration which you have, gets confused and lost. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
124:The Master used to say that attainment of perfection means becoming gentle. Maintain your equanimity under all circumstances. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
125:Yoga is the science which teaches us how to get these perceptions [direct experiences of God]. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
126:Many are His names and endless are the Lord's manifestations. As the devotee looks upon Him, so does He manifest Himself to Him. ~ Swami Virajananda #KEYS
127:One must continue spiritual practices without interruption and with single-minded devotion as long as the Goal is not achieved. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
128:What we believe we must live up to; what we have learnt we must practice. Religion cannot be in theory, it must be in practice. ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
129:Anyone who will think of God, and repeat His name, will have everything intact - here and hereafter. His name is true for ever. ~ SWAMI SUBODHANANDA, #KEYS
130:One must think of one's Ishta as dearer than the dearest, as one's very Self—greater than one's kin, far more than one's own. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
131:The calmer we are, the better for us, and the more the amount of work we can do. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. II. 293), #KEYS
132:The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in everyone of us. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VIII. 126), #KEYS
133:Worldly riches only swell our egotism and pride, and there is no greater impediment in the pursuit of religious path than this. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
134:One must have the inner conviction that whatever happens in this world happens by His will. Success and failure come by His will. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
135:So long as you have faith in your guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. V. 106), #KEYS
136:There is no knowledge without experience, and man has to see God in his own soul. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 133), #KEYS
137:If you always think of a holy person, you will become holy and pure. Pure character is formed by close association with the holy. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
138:The utterance of the Mantra in a proper spirit even for once purifies the mind. Instantly the mind becomes delighted and blissful. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
139:We are all only puppets in the hands of God. When we understand this, all pride and ambition, all vanity and egotism will go. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
140:You must be pure and help anyone who comes to you, as much as lies in your power. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 142), #KEYS
141:A little meditation is no good. God cannot be realized through such lukewarm moods. One must yearn deeply, one must become restless. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
142:Every breath of ours should be associated with the Lord, in our mind. God is behind you. always remember Him in everything you do. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
143:Each of our good thoughts tears the veil behind which appears the pure, the infinite, God, our self. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
144:The Mother is our guide and whatever happens or will happen is under Her ordination. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 417), #KEYS
145:The whole course of a man's life becomes reoriented as a result of holy association; and its effect, too, is very lasting. ~ Manapurush Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
146:The only power is in realization, and that lies in ourselves and comes from thinking. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. II. 336), #KEYS
147:Always keep before your mind how much spiritual practice our Master underwent, and His disciples also. They are the ideals to follow. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
148:The network of words is a big forest; it is the cause of a curious wandering of the mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, Bhakti-Yoga, #KEYS
149:You have to plod on and scale many hills. You cannot climb the Everest in one jump. There is no jumping on the spiritual path. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
150:Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VII. 136), #KEYS
151:In a pure body and pure mind, the power of God becomes manifest. Think and think of God; the impurities of the mind will be washed away. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
152:It is better to be deceived by others and yet to remain unsuspicious of people. If one suspects others, one loses strength of character. ~ SWAMI TURIYANANDA #KEYS
153:It is the ideal that has made us what we are, and will make us what we are going to be. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. IV. 285), #KEYS
154:The powers of the mind are the rays of the sun dissipated. When they are concentrated, they illumine.
~ Swami Vivekananda,#KEYS
155:The real individuality is that which never changes and will never change; and that is the God within us. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
156:Each individual mind is bound to attain to freedom, and perfection through gradual experience; by going through the process of evolution. ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
157:The more heart you will be able to manifest, the greater will be the victory you achieve. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 425), #KEYS
158:All that man has to do is to take care of three things; good thought, good word, good deed. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 492), #KEYS
159:Learn to love Him, call on Him earnestly with the love of a lover. You have none other. Just think, 'He alone exists, He has become all.' ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
160:To make hardship less severe is to face it with strength. That is man's life. Man wants to conquer and God has given the power for it. ~ SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA, #KEYS
161:The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 479), #KEYS
162:Any spiritual endeavour which enables to raise the human consciousness to cosmic consciousness, to unite the individual with God, is Yoga.
~ Swami Avdheshanand,#KEYS
163:Forgetting one's own self and self-interest for the sake of the Ideal, is the only way to become unselfish. This is what real devotion means. ~ SWAMI PARAMANANDA, #KEYS
164:Good is our nature, perfection is our nature, not imperfection, not impurity — and we should remember that. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
165:Have faith, and realize that everything is He, and He is everything. There is nothing without Him. He has created everything out of Himself. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
166:Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories, however beautiful they may be. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. II. 396), #KEYS
167:Yoga means 'yoke', 'to join', that is, to join the soul of man with the supreme Soul or God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VIII. 36), #KEYS
168:Attachment is bondage; yet again, attachment opens the door to liberation to one who becomes attached to God or the Guru or to illumined souls. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
169:We should know that remembrance of Him when we inhale the air purifies our inner being and remembrance during exhalation sanctifies our body. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
170:When intellect, egoism - all the aspects of mind - have passed through the process of cleansing, there arises unbroken recollectedness of God. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
171:Always be calm, go on working without any fatigue. This is the test; whether the mind is working properly or not, can be understood from this. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
172:He reveals Himself to the pure heart; the pure and the stainless see God, yea, even in this life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 13), #KEYS
173:The greatest freedom lies in implicit obedience. One attains this freedom by obeying the commands of one's elder without questioning. ~ Manapurush Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
174:Be content in what the Master wills. There is no use in becoming restless. Stay where you are and depend on Him. There is no point in worrying . ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
175:Embracing Him, accepting Him, wedding Him, become one with Him, to such a degree and so intensely that there may be left no trace of separation. ~ SWAMI RAMA TIRTHA, #KEYS
176:Be like a little child. The more you approach the Lord, the more sincere and openhearted you will be. Our Master was the embodiment of frankness. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
177:Raja-Yoga is the science of religion, the rationale of all worship, all prayers, forms, ceremonies, and miracles. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
178:Whether you can meditate properly or not, never give up the practice. Japa leads one to a state of meditation and meditation results in samadhi. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
179:Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
180:With love there is no painful reaction; love only brings a reaction of bliss; if it does not, it not love, it is mistaking something else for love. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
181:Nobody will come to help you if you put yourself forward as a leader. ... Kill the ego first if you want to succeed. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
182:We have indeed many things to learn from others; yea, that man who refuses to learn is already dead. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 381), #KEYS
183:It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 321), #KEYS
184:Liberation means entire freedom—freedom from the bondage of good, as well as from the bondage of evil. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 55), #KEYS
185:May we always remain as pure as we are at the present moment, and as enthusiastic for spirituality as we are just now! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
186:Realization will come in the fullness of time, by living constantly in the company of sadhus (holy men). ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W V. 268), #KEYS
187:Your duty for the present is complete resignation to the will of God. If you practice resignation to the will of the Lord, you will get peace of mind. ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
188:Liberty, Mukti, is all my religion, and everything that tries to curb it, I will avoid by fight or flight. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. V. 72), #KEYS
189:God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
190:Let Him do what He thinks best. True resignation comes only after hard struggle. Only when the wings tired, does a bird sit on the mast of a ship to rest. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
191:The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VII. 500), #KEYS
192:Mercy is heaven itself; to be good, we have all to be merciful. Even justice and right should stand on mercy. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 59), #KEYS
193:Raise a wall around your mind by your discrimination. Do not allow the distraction of external circumstances to enter your mind. Know that this is Sadhana. ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
194:You cannot serve God and Mammon at the same time. All prosperity that comes with Mammon is transient, is only for a moment. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
195:All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
196:Real yearning for God is the result of associating with the holy, and a person gets the opportunity for holy company only as a result of many good actions. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
197:We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 31), #KEYS
198:You have to undertake strenuous spiritual exercises. One is vouchsafed the divine mood when one's mind becomes purified through meditation on God. ~ Manapurush Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
199:Every work... is sacred - everything is service unto the Lord. You have to learn to do everything with an equal sense of reverence and sanctity in your heart. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
200:Have faith and complete trust in the ways of God. relentless prayers offered with a pure and devoted heart have the power to make the impossible possible.
~ Swami Avdheshanand,#KEYS
201:I base my teaching on the great Vedantic truth of the sameness and omnipresence of the Soul of the Universe. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 194), #KEYS
202:If you have a desire for sense-enjoyments, then there can be no spiritual attainments. If you are really after spiritual life, then bid farewell to desires. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
203:That which is good and pure in you is God. That which is evil in you is your ego. The more you think of Him, the more He will increase and you will decrease. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
204:All sadhanas, all practices, are meant to purify and strengthen the mind that disturbs your being and prevents you from being aware of the Reality that is within you. ~ SWAMI RAMA, #KEYS
205:Eternal peace cannot come so long as passions and desires persist; and those passions and desires cannot be wholly uprooted without the grace of God. ~ Manapurush Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
206:See everything in the true light. Whom to fear? God is our most loving Mother. Can that Mother do any harm to Her child? Be true, practice purity and patience. ~ SWAMI PARAMANANDA, #KEYS
207:Stand up and say like a hero, "What is there that I cannot do? I am the child of Immortality: Immortality is my birthright, nothing can dispossess me of that!" ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
208:The Lord has to be served with one's body, mind, and possessions. Merely to sit quiet and make japa will not do. Do serve Him a little with your body as well. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
209:Certainly, He will come to you. Only one thing is needed: your yearning, your earnest longing. He wants nothing else. You have to call on Him with earnestness. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
210:The proper way to spend money is to remove others' suffering. Also, in order to maintain proper dharma, you must give up your friendship with wealth and money. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
211:Cast off hypocrisy. It is because of this that you do not progress. If your devotion is genuine, there is no reason why you should not progress and realize God. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
212:Knowledge can never be created, it can only be discovered; and every man who makes a great discovery is inspired. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VII. 39), #KEYS
213:We have not come to this world either for fault-finding or for correcting others, we have come simply to learn. We must always ask ourselves, what we have learnt. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
214:We have not come to this world either for fault-finding or for correcting others, we have come simply to learn. We must always ask ourselves, what we have learnt. ~ Swami Premananda, #KEYS
215:If you understand that this 'ego' never at any time had any existence outside your imagination, you will not be concerned about ways and means of getting rid of it. ~ Annamalai Swami, #KEYS
216:The Guru shows the disciple the path to life eternal, and protects him from all troubles. Putting great faith in the words of the Guru let the disciple live them. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
217:The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood—that marvellous, unselfish, all-suffering, ever-forgiving mother. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VIII. 58), #KEYS
218:We want to enjoy all the pleasures of the world to the full and to have the realization of God at one and the same time. Vain dream! It cannot be done, my friend. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
219:Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own Karma, through pleasure or pain. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 435), #KEYS
220:Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
221:Be fearless! Courage! Courage! Do not allow even the thought of defeat to enter your mind. Realization of the Goal, or let the body fall ! - let this be your Mantra. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
222:Do I wish that the Christian would become Hindu? God forbid. Do I wish that the Hindu or Buddhist would become Christian? God forbid. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
223:Go on. You have worked wonderfully well. We do not wait for help, we will work it out, my boy, be self-reliant, faithful and patient. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
224:You are living within your shell. Expand! See yourself 'in all beings and all beings in your Self.' Expand until you reach the goal, which is to see the Self in all. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
225:You have got to cultivate all the three - hands, head and heart. The word 'hands' stands for physical labour; the 'head' for intellect and by 'heart' is meant love. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
226:You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
~ Swami Vivekananda,#KEYS
227:The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 354), #KEYS
228:The Law is in God and God in Law; the All-intelligent, All-pervading God knows the desire of the heart of the earnest seeker of Truth, and will surely guide him. ~ SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA, #KEYS
229:We must stand on our own legs; we must surely realize success which is our birthright! If a slight degree of fear is allowed to come in, we shall be overpowered. ~ SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA, #KEYS
230:If the mind is not under control, it is no use living in a cave because the same mind will bring all disturbances there. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 440), #KEYS
231:Religion is not in doctrines, in dogmas, nor in intellectual argumentation; it is being and becoming, it is realization. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. II. 43), #KEYS
232:The contact with perfected souls will most certainly stimulate love for God in others. One imbibes thoughts of God as soon as one comes near a realized soul. ~ Manapurush Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
233:To whom are these thoughts arising? To you. That means you are not the thought. You are the Self. Remain as the Self, and don't latch onto anything that is not the Self. ~ Annamalai Swami, #KEYS
234:After having this rare privilege of human birth and the opportunity for attaining true knowledge, life and everything else are in vain if you do not try to realize Him. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
235:An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory. Practice Yoga, Religion and Philosophy in daily life and attain Self-realization. ~ Swami Sivananda, Light Power and Wisdom, Introduction, #KEYS
236:Spiritual life begins when you have loosened yourself from the control of the senses. He whose senses rule him is worldly — is a slave. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
237:If a man loves his Guru with his whole heart, obeys what the latter says, his mind being devoted to Him, will naturally shun other attractions and thus get concentrated. ~ SWAMI SUBODHANANDA, #KEYS
238:If a man loves his Guru with his whole heart, obeys what the latter says, his mind being devoted to Him, will naturally shun other attractions and thus get concentrated. ~ Swami Subodhananda, #KEYS
239:The human mind is complex with all its typical moods, manners, and weapons. The purpose of sadhana is to be free from the magic wonders of the mind and remain free all the time. ~ SWAMI RAMA, #KEYS
240:Money makes us forget God. Dependence on God is true self-reliance. Dependence on money is not. The two cannot go together. It is dangerous to have your legs in two boats. ~ SWAMI AKHANDANADA, #KEYS
241:The higher the life, the less the sleep. The body must be strong. Rise early; meditate a little, for the mind then is naturally calm. Do every bit of work with a purpose. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
242:You are the Divinity, the Lord of lords you are; feel that. Realize in this moment. Faith full of conviction and devoid of the least doubt is true faith and works wonders. ~ SWAMI RAMA TIRTHA, #KEYS
243:Take your refuge in truth. Surrender yourself to the Lord. Make your heart and lips the same, and the Lord, who knows the innermost thoughts of our hearts, will protect you. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
244:The Self is the essence of this universe, the essence of all souls; He is the essence of your own life, nay, 'Thou art That'. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 374), #KEYS
245:What is the use of imagining yourself a sinner? You are infinite; it is sheer ignorance that makes you imagine that you are finite. Back of everyone there is Infinity! ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
246:Know that you will not be at all tormented by mental unrest if you, without being sentimental, dedicate the good or bad results of your actions to the lotus feet of the Lord. ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
247:Stand firm like a rock in your own faith. Be always watchful, cheerful and faithful to your Ideal. Be brave and true and unselfish. Never fear and never look back, but move on. ~ SWAMI PARAMANANDA, #KEYS
248:What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 278), #KEYS
249:Do not sleep too long. How can a spiritual aspirant sleep away his life? He cannot. He must keep waking - who knows when God will come? The higher the life, the less the sleep. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
250:Love immense and infinite, broad as the sky and deep as the ocean—this is the one great gain in life. Blessed is he who gets it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. V. 144), #KEYS
251:Be very meditative. Do not lose your time and energy. Live well; prove your life well. Behave yourself most spiritually. Life is short. Now or never. Don't lose opportunity. ~ SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA, #KEYS
252:Not mere theory; actualize it - there has been enough talk and writing. Put the books aside and let your actions speak. This is what the lives of the Master and Swamiji stand for. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
253:Pray: 'O Lord, give unto me this yearning, make me mad for You.' Let people say, so-and-so has become mad for God. People may become mad for so many things. Why not you for God? ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
254:The goldness of gold, the silverness of silver, the manhood of man, the womanhood of woman, the reality of everything is the Lord. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 378), #KEYS
255:There is nothing holier in the world than to keep good company, because the good impressions will then tend to come to the surface. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 220), #KEYS
256:This very world is seen by the five senses as matter, by the very wicked as hell, by the good as heaven, and by the perfect as God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. V. 272), #KEYS
257: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. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
258:If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
259:As long as there is intense struggle, there are still desires which tie us to the world. We have not realized yet its complete hollowness. When we realize that, the way is easy. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
260:Find God and forget yourself. Be wholly surrendered, the moment you can give up everything and know your own nothingness, that moment God-vision will come and your will be free. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
261:Spiritual knowledge can only be given in silence like the dew that falls unseen and unheard, yet bringing into bloom masses of roses. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 222), #KEYS
262:The whole world has been made by the energy of man, by the power of enthusiasm, by the power of faith. Arise and awake, the world is calling upon you. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
263:Both peace and peacelessness come to us for the sake of our own experience, according to God's dispensation, but we have to remain steady under all circumstances by holding on to Him. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
264:Spiritual life entails the least expenditure of time and energy to produce successful result, as opposed to worldliness which takes all time and energy and gives nothing in turn. ~ SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA, #KEYS
265:It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
266:To keep one's discrimination alert is a great austerity. He who has learned to discriminate can successfully overcome lust and greed. So, cultivate your discrimination and conscience. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
267:My Child, What I want is Muscles of Iron and Nerves of Steel, inside which Dwells a Mind of the same Material as that of which the Thunderbolt is Made.
~ Swami Vivekananda,#KEYS
268:Those who are not happy internally can never be happy externally; those who are not happy within themselves can never make others happy. Those who do not love themselves can never love others. ~ SWAMI RAMA, #KEYS
269:Recite the Lord's name with all your heart, throughout the day and night, whether you are in the midst of work or not. While outwardly you are engaged in work, repeat His name inwardly. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
270:The spiritual life is one of intense striving. In order to attain success, the aspirant should always be up and doing. The life of the seeker after Truth must be dynamic and creative. ~ SWAMI YATISWARANANDA, #KEYS
271:The supreme duty of man is to remember the Lord always, whether one is engaged in consciously repeating His name or not. Every breath of ours should be associated with Him, in our mind. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
272:You must have faith and patience. You have persistently up and doing. What will you gain by dejection and moaning just because you cannot achieve anything with a little effort? ~ Manapurush Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
273:Before the effulgent glory of God, the little glory of the ego will completely vanish, as stars vanish when the sun rises. You must therefore practice the Presence of God inside you. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
274:Giving Him the power of attorney and remaining carefree, practice spiritual discipline without pretense. If you do not double-deal with God, He will assume each of your responsibilities. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
275:Just as creation is infinite and eternal, without beginning and without end, so is the knowledge of God without beginning and without end. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 119), #KEYS
276:Pray, 'Thou our Father, our Mother, our dearest Friend ! Thou who bearest this universe, help us to bear the little burden of this our life.' ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 91), #KEYS
277:There is nothing so powerful to purify the mind as work done unselfishly with a spirit of dedication and service. That is the only way by which you can get rid of yourself of bad thoughts. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
278:Without strict Brahmacharya it is not possible for any one to hold fast to great ideals. To secure the full development and vitality of the body, brain and mind, Brahmacharya is essential. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
279:A sadhaka has to go through a series of internal experiences. When a sadhaka's convictions are filtered by the systematic and organized way of sadhana, the mind becomes penetrating and one-pointed. ~ SWAMI RAMA, #KEYS
280: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? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
281:Happiness and misery, pleasure and pain are transient and so the Lord asks us in the Gita to go beyond both, and this can be attained only by constantly thinking of the Lord in the heart. ~ SWAMI VIRESWARANANDA, #KEYS
282:One cannot achieve everything merely by receiving the mantra; one must perform sadhana—severe sadhana. One should perform sadhana exactly as the Guru has instructed and with full faith. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
283:Strength, strength ! No weeping in a corner. Stand up, shake off all weakness. The soul is immortal; there is no sin for the soul. Whom to fear? Move on with strength. Fear not, but move on. ~ Swami Paramananda, #KEYS
284:The first manifest effect of life is expansion. You must expand if you want to live. The moment you have ceased to expand, death is upon you, danger is ahead. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
285:The spiritual path is full of hurdles. If you conquer one obstacle, another obstacle is ready to manifest. Great patience, perseverance, vigilance, and undaunted strength are needed. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
286:Whenever obstacles come on the path, think of them as 'not me'. Cultivate the attitude that the real you is beyond the reach of all troubles and obstacles. There are no obstacles for the Self. ~ Annamalai Swami, #KEYS
287:While repeating the name of the Lord, you will see His form - effulgent and smiling. You will also smile and then weep, and say, ' Why did You not appear before? Why have You come so late?' ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
288:One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realization outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 44), #KEYS
289:The Guru's blessings help one in one's spiritual endeavor. By Mother's grace you have it already. Now dive deep into prayer, meditation, etc. Engage yourself in japa and meditation. ~ Manapurush Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
290:God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
291:Have strength. Have courage, no matter what may come before you. Overcome all weakness by the strength of purity. Move onward boldly, having real faith in the Lord. He will always protect you. ~ SWAMI PARAMANANDA, #KEYS
292:Meditation and Japa appear dry in the beginning. But still you must engage the mind in the contemplation of the Deity, like swallowing a bitter medicine. Slowly spiritual joy will grow in you. ~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
293:Moral purity and spiritual aspiration are the first steps in the seeker's path. Without a strong conviction in moral values, there can surely be no spiritual life, or even a good life. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
294:Divinity is the end of all wisdom. What can there be greater than Divine wisdom, what higher, what nobler, and what truer? That Divine wisdom is the end. We must reach that end sooner or later. ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
295:He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
296:If the disciple has sincere faith in the Guru, it is easy for him to attain Divine knowledge and devotion. The one thing needful is faith in the Guru. When this is gained, everything is gained. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
297:If we are treading the path of light, and if by chance, by mistake, by ignorance, or even by bad habit, we commit mistakes, we will return to the path again, because of the guidance from the unknown. ~ Swami Rama, #KEYS
298:As long as you have a creed, you have no God." ~ Swami Vivehananda, (1863-1902) an Indian Hindu monk and a key figure in the introduction of Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the western world., Wikipedia., #KEYS
299:He who meditates well attains power to work more efficiently. He is never tired, because his energy is not mis-spent in any way; he is never annoyed nor worried, he is not attached to anything. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
300:If you harbour anger and passions, it will be your ruin; especially lust and anger - they are demonic. If they arise in your heart, weep and pray before the Lord. By His grace they will fly away. ~ Swami Premananda, #KEYS
301:I see clear as daylight that there is the one Brahman in all, in them and me—one Shakti dwells in all. The only difference is of manifestation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VII. 246), #KEYS
302:Proclaim the glory of the Atman with the roar of a lion, and impart fearlessness unto all beings by saying: "Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached". ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
303:He is here and there, He is everywhere, He is within us. He pervades this universe. In fact, He is immanent and resident in nature. He is intra-cosmic. He rules not from outside, but from within. ~ Swami Abhedananda, #KEYS
304:Advance towards God, my child; the more you go towards Him, the more peace you will get. There is no peace in anything in the world. At the feet of God alone one find the abode of peace. ~ Manapurush Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
305:As long as the mind goes out to the world through the senses, it will be restless, and it will be weak. The more a mind is restless, the weaker it is; the more it is calm, the stronger it is. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
306:Believe me, the Lord is always with you. If you practice a little, He will extend His helping hand to you. It is He who is protecting us all from miseries and troubles. How unbounded is His grace! ~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
307:Whatever you eat, eat after offering it mentally to Him; know that to be consecrated food, the gift of His mercy. This destroys any spiritually harmful properties that may be attached to the food. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
308:Humans can see God if they give up selfishness, think of Him, and call upon Him. Through His name the inauspicious turns auspicious, and peace comes out of peacelessness. One need only have faith. ~ SWAMI SUBODHANANDA, #KEYS
309:Life is not meant for the pleasure of the body. Realization of God alone is the goal of life. Now that you have attained this rare human birth, do not allow your life to be spent in vain. ~ Manapurush Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
310:Stern self-discipline is absolutely essential. Self-discipline does not mean suppression, but taming the brute within. It means humanization of the animal and spiritualization of the human. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
311:Those who lead an unregulated life and think impure thoughts lose their powers and strength of mind. They are at the mercy of passing desires and the feverish cravings of the senses and are slaves. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
312:Without tormenting yourself, work hard, then you will find joy. In the beginning you are to drudge on as if you were learning the alphabet. Do not worry, do not complain, gradually peace will come. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
313:Go on practicing Japa and meditation with great devotion, perseverance, and patience. Gradually the mind will become tranquil and meditation will deepen. You will find a craving for your meditation. ~ Swami Virajananda, #KEYS
314:Spiritual progress is slow, as the spiritual Sadhana is difficult and laborious. It is like the spiral. In the beginning, great striving is needed. Be patient; be persevering; and be steady. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
315:To love because it is the nature of love to love is undeniably the highest and the most unselfish manifestation of love that may be seen in the world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 86), #KEYS
316:Why think merely of your disease and ill health? Know always, and under all circumstances, 'I belong to the Lord. The Lord is my eternal treasure; He is the one Reality, the source of my well-being.' ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
317:Peeling off the layers of ego, emotions, and embedded thought patterns is not so easy. On account of maya, one is not conscious of the real Self. A seeker must start the search in earnest and begin digging. ~ SWAMI RAMA, #KEYS
318:Whatever you do, you have to do with faith. Whatever is to be achieved will be achieved that way alone. Go on doing worship and japa as you have been doing. Don't make your mind restless needlessly. ~ SWAMI SUBODHANANDA, #KEYS
319:My ideal indeed can be put into a few words and that is : to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VII. 501), #KEYS
320:The mind that becomes elated also is subject to depression. Don't identify yourself with either! Go beyond! Somehow touch the feet of the Lord. Then you are no longer subject to the opposites of life. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
321:Leave inimical thoughts aside if you want to have permanent Bhakti. Hatred is a thing which greatly impedes the course of Bhakti, and the man who hates none reaches God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
322:So long as our mind is in this world, so long as our mind is in this body, so long as we identify ourselves with our ego, we cannot be expected to know our own Self. We cannot realize our own Self. ~ SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA, #KEYS
323:Nothing will accrue to you if you do not have right and proper attachment, affection and love for the Master. Love the Master giving away to Him all your heart and soul. Make Him your very own. ~ Manapurush Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
324:There is tremendous power in practice. Practice becomes firm and abiding if continued long and uninterruptedly with faith and devotion. Whatever you practice becomes in course of time your second nature. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
325:The senses are delusive. Even the highest man is sometimes dragged down by them to the lowest plane of sensuality. For this reason you must wage an incessant war against them. There is no other way. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
326:First detach yourselves completely from all worldly things. A piece of gold remains gold, whether it lies in mud or anywhere else. Similarly, once you have realized God, it does not matter where you live. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
327:Have faith in Guru, in his teachings, and in the surety that you can get free. Think day and night that this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
328:We have entangled ourselves and we seem to love to entangle ourselves. Such is the perversity of our nature. But only when we extricate ourselves from this labyrinth of nerves can we hope to be free. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
329:You need not worry about awakening the spiritual power called Kundalini. If you chant the name of the Lord with a steadfast mind and meditate on His blissful form, you need not bother about anything else. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
330:You should do japa irrespective of the state of your mind. Consider yourself as one detached from the mind. Whether the mind registers a feeling of joy or sorrow should not be a matter of concern to you. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
331:There is no end to the love of God. It is an inexhaustible treasure! The more you drink of it, the more thirsty you feel; and ultimately, losing yourself in bliss, you forget yourself and are merged in it. ~ Swami Virajananda, #KEYS
332:Through wealth and honour our egoism gets bloated up, and there is no greater obstacle in the spiritual path than egoism. It is in fact this egoism, the product of ignorance, that masks our vision of God. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
333:Don't accept delivery of all the wrong ideas that keep coming to you. Rest quietly in the feeling of 'I am', which is consciousness, and cultivate the attitude that all thoughts, all perceptions are 'not me'. ~ Annamalai Swami, #KEYS
334:The wise do not teach spiritual precepts unless they are asked to do so; they hide their wisdom. They impart knowledge only when there is genuine earnestness in the seeker. They do not enter into arguments. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
335:True belief, which is known as faith, comes after direct experience. Faith born from direct experience becomes a part of the aspirant's being, and such faith protects the aspirant like a mother protects her child. ~ SWAMI RAMA, #KEYS
336:You are the architect of your life. You build your own philosophy and construct your own attitudes. Without right attitudes, the entire architecture remains shaky. Once you realize this fact, you will look within. ~ SWAMI RAMA, #KEYS
337:All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
338:Once longing awakens, one becomes absorbed in contemplating and meditating on God. Through constant contemplation and meditation, one begins having glimpses of the Truth, and these experiences strengthen his faith. ~ SWAMI RAMA, #KEYS
339:Choose that relation to your Ideal which gives the greatest sense of nearness. Trying to serve Him in an aspect contrary to your natural tendency makes the path of devotion tedious and often leads to failure. ~ SWAMI PARAMANANDA, #KEYS
340:During the period of Sadhana, keep the mind fully occupied with spiritual pursuits. Keep yourself at the farthest distance from everything that would stir up your passions. Then only you will be safe. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
341:Faith in one's own Guru is necessary. If a man loves his Guru with his whole heart, obeys what the latter says, his mind being devoted to him, will naturally shun other attractions and thus get concentrated. ~ SWAMI SUBODHANANDA, #KEYS
342:Mind is only a cloud that hides the sun of Truth. Man is, in fact, God playing the fool. When He chooses, He liberates himself." ~ Swami Ramdas, (188 -1963), an Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist, pilgrim, Wikipedia. See:, #KEYS
343:Of one hundred persons who take up the spiritual life, eighty turn out to be charlatans, fifteen insane, and only five, maybe, get a glimpse of the real truth. Therefore beware ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
344:Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity. [Trans. Purohit Swami]
~ Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita,#KEYS
345:Go back, go back to the old days when there was strength and vitality. Be strong once more, drink deep of this fountain of yore, and that is the only condition of life in India. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
346:Control lust. Don't permit it to increase. Always pay attention so that lust does not crop up. It is an enemy that places obstacles on the path of one's sadhana. He who has conquered lust has reached the goal. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
347:However much their systems of philosophy and religion may differ, all mankind stand in reverence and awe before the man who is ready to sacrifice himself for others. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 86), #KEYS
348:Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, Anubhuti, Realization. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VIII. 348), #KEYS
349:Spiritually speaking the Lord and His name are one. Hence through constant repetition of His name God is realized. One should always try to repeat His name all through the day even in the midst of one's work. ~ SWAMI VIRESWARANANDA, #KEYS
350:What keeps us from seeing God? Selfishness, egotism, ambition, vanity, pride. The more we can minimize these, the sooner will we come to the goal. If we can get rid of them altogether, then freedom is ours. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
351:Cultivate the attitude that the real you is beyond the reach of all troubles and obstacles. There are no obstacles for the Self. If you can remember that you always are the Self, obstacles will be of no importance. ~ Annamalai Swami, #KEYS
352:Attachment to pleasure-seeking never give one peace or happiness. As much as the mind is withdrawn from sense enjoyment , that much joy will it derive. Apart from this, there is no other means of attaining peace. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
353:Meditation in the core of the heart is advisable. But, my dear, how deep into the heart can you really enter? Our Master said meditation on his picture would be enough. Go on doing it with all your heart and soul. ~ Swami Vijnananada, #KEYS
354:The object of food is to build a strong body & a fine intellect. Unless the body & the mind are pure it is not possible to go thro spiritual practices. It is the food offered to God that builds a pure body & mind. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
355:The plate of food is set before you, but you keep your mouth closed. Do we have to force the food down your throats? This lethargy is a disease of the mind! Unless there is self-effort, nothing can be accomplished. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
356:God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
357:He, who wishes to meditate on the Lord after all his problems are solved, is like the fool, who wishes to bathe in the sea after the waves have subsided". That moment will never come. The sea will always have waves. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
358:When a devotee thinks of 'me' and 'mine,' and separates himself from God, that kind of dualism is harmful to a person's spiritual growth. Such an aspirant remains deluded. A devotee must completely renounce the ego. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
359:Let us give up all this foolish talk of doing good to the world. It is not waiting for your or my help; yet we must work and constantly do good, because it is a blessings to ourselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
360:The Master disliked a happy-go-lucky attitude. He used to say of Swamiji (Swami Vivekananda): "See what a heroic temperament he has! As soon as he sets his mind on something, he applies himself heart and soul to it." ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
361:Man is a hero so long as he struggles. But to conquer one's passions is no joke. Man can only do it by finding something that gives him greater pleasure. Man must give up everything to God, then alone he thrives. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
362:Watch whether you are stationary in the spiritual path, retrogressing, or advancing. If your Japa, meditation or Vedantic Vichara thickens your veil and fattens your egoism, it is not then a spiritual Sadhana. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
363:All ideas of union or separation, of friend or foe, of high and low, of 'I and mine', are non-existent in the play of yours with the Divine Mother. There is only-inexhaustible Bliss, boundless Love, and infinite Peace. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
364:Do not be discouraged, but continue to practice meditation. You will soon succeed in freeing your mind from distractions. He who keeps his mind God, finds His grace, and through His grace becomes absorbed in meditation. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
365:If you make much of mind you make much of doubt. People are skeptics. Why? Because they make much of this little mind. But the mind never directs man properly. Go beyond the mind and you will go beyond all doubts. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
366:So long as we have a body and so long as we are deluded by the idea of our identity with the body, so long as we have five senses and see the external world, we must have a Personal God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
367:We have come from a place of unity to a place of variety. And if we go on expanding ourselves, we finally reach to unity again. Unity which is the goal of expansion is not to be given up, but kept up for eternity. ~ SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA, #KEYS
368:You must be genuine if you want to advance in spiritual life. You may cheat a man for some time, but you cannot cheat God. Nor can you deceive the world for long. Your face, your tone, your manner will betray you. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
369:Hold on to God even in gloom. Never miss meditation or forget to repeat the name of the Lord. Meditation is the anchorage of the soul. Meditation will purify your mind. Continue japa and meditation without losing heart. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
370:Hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. . . . There is infinite life before the soul. Take your time and you will achieve your end
~ Swami Vivekananda,#KEYS
371:If we love God for what we can get from Him in the world, we really love the world, not God, and we can never be true devotees. The true devotee loves God just for the joy of loving Him, because God is the Beloved. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
372:That which brings well-being to man is Dharma. Dharma supports this world. The people are upheld by Dharma. That which secures preservation of beings is Dharma. Dharma leads to eternal happiness and immortality. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
373:The ideal is that we must have the whole education of our country, spiritual and secular, in our own hands, and it must be on national lines, through national methods as far as practical. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
374:The Self is not to be reached by too much talking, not even by the highest intellects, not even by the study of the scriptures. The scriptures themselves say so. You must open your heart. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
375:Wherever there is intense longing to see God, wherever there is unflinching devotion and unselfish love with the whole heart and soul, there is the manifestation of the formless One to fulfill the desire of the devotee. ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
376:Attachment with worldly objects and pleasures is the greatest obstacle in the path of Realization, while worldly detachment with full concentration on the one Truth, the Divinity within, gives immediate Self-realization. ~ SWAMI RAMA TIRTHA, #KEYS
377:At the time of Japa and meditation, we meditate on the Lord keeping our mind concentrated on Him, in the same way, if we learn to see the same Lord in every man, then we shall not forget God even in the midst of work. ~ SWAMI VIRESWARANANDA, #KEYS
378:Contemplation is the essence of a religious life. It is through contemplation that one attains the knowledge of Reality. So one has to withdraw from the external world and turn towards God and constantly remember Him. ~ SWAMI VIRESWARANANDA, #KEYS
379:Do not stop! Move onward! Light! More light! Go deeper and deeper. You must see Him face to face, and talk to him. Enough of study and argument! Now gather the forces of your mind and direct them toward God and God only. ~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
380:All ideas of union or separation, of friend or foe, of high and low, of 'I and mine', are non-existent in that play of yours with the Divine Mother. There is only - inexhaustible Bliss, boundless Love, and infinite Peace. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
381:We are given a chance for improvement. And the lesson we learn from expansion is to give up, not externally, but internally, the narrow selfish ideas, and thus rise from worldly ideas to the life of peace and bliss. ~ SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA., #KEYS
382:Compose your mind and fix it on God. Say to your mind: "Plunge into the ocean of God." Make the best use of this Divine grace. Do not sacrifice the infinite bliss of God for the sake of the ephemeral pleasures of the world. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
383:It is in fact this egoism, the product of ignorance, that masks our vision of God. Really His glory is present everywhere, but we fail to see Him because we refuse to remove the veil of ignorance that obstructs our vision. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
384:We must "strike off our fetters". But no fetter is ever struck off by a single blow. Repeated blows are necessary. If you want to break your bondages, you must struggle patiently. Nothing sudden has brought about good. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
385:Highest knowledge, devotion, spirituality - these can only be acquired through great self-effort. One has to struggle hard to win them. Then only do they become one's own, and enduring, filling the mind with joy unspeakable. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
386:Life is short, but the soul is immortal and eternal, and one thing being certain, death, let us therefore take up a great ideal and give up our whole life to it. Let this be our determination. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
387:You must dwell on God uninterruptedly and be absorbed in the contemplation of His true nature. If you practice Japa and Meditation regularly, without break for some years, you will see for yourself what result comes to pass. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
388:You should analyze your mind and see whether you have been able to cover every bit of work with the spirit of God and judge whether the duties you are performing are for His sake or for the propitiation of your spurious self. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
389:I beg you to understand this one fact - no good comes out of the man who day and night thinks he is nobody. If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low, and nothing, nothing he becomes. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
390:Increase the time and energy devoted to Japa and meditation slowly and gradually. If there be sincerity, depth of feeling and firmness of purpose, you will have everything you desire in the fullness of time, through His grace. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
391:People who believe in the reality of the world are really no better than people who build dams to catch the water that they see in a mirage." ~ Annamalai Swami, (1906-1995), a direct disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi, author of "Final Talks", (2000), #KEYS
392:We will have to cover the whole universe by the Lord Himself. If we cannot do that how can we expect to reach perfection, how can we expect to realize the eternal and infinite ocean of wisdom as the foundation of this universe? ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
393:Do not lose heart. Obstacles are stepping stones to success. They will develop your will. Do not allow yourself to be crushed by them. Defects remind you of perfection. Sin reminds you of virtue. Chose the positive path. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
394:Do not think of anything except God; only then lust, greed, and other enemies will be automatically conquered. When these enemies are conquered and the mind is settled, that very God whose eternal nature is Truth will manifest. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
395:If you understand clearly that the Lord is the highest, then nothing will frighten or discourage you, but all your senses will run in the direction of the Supreme, and both your mind and your senses will help you reach Him. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
396:We say that God is our Father. In the same way we call Him Mother, and so on. These relationships are conceived in order to strengthen Bhakti in us, and they make us feel nearer and dearer to God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
397:'As oil poured from one vessel to another falls in an unbroken line, so, when the mind in an unbroken stream thinks of the Lord, we have what is called Para-Bhakti or supreme love.' ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 85), #KEYS
398:Have confidence in yourself! The mind must be made steady. Analyze it and find out if it wants what is right or if it is only trying to deceive you. As you continue to analyze in this manner, you will gain confidence in yourself. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
399:The two phases of this distinction in life are—first, that the man who knows the real Self, will not be affected by anything; secondly, that that man alone can do good to the world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (CW. V. 285), #KEYS
400: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. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
401:Even scrubbing the floor may be turned into worship if there is the remembrance of the Lord within. Done sacra mentally, every work is an offering to the Lord. He accepts it as He accepts a flower placed at the altar with devotion. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
402:For whatever good work we may do, let us not claim any praise or benefit. It belongs to God. Give up the fruits to God. Let us stand aside and think that we are only servants obeying God, our Master. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
403:If a person possesses sincere yearning for the Lord and is eager to follow the spiritual path, he is sure to find a real Guru through the grace of the Lord. Therefore a spiritual aspirant need not feel anxious about finding a Guru. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
404:When you have altogether resigned yourselves at the feet of the Lord, you have know the secret of a peaceful, blissful life. Life is a constant fight. You must fight hard with the senses, the result is all in the hands of God. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
405:Wherever you are, in whatever station, from there you have to reach sattva in varying degrees because tamas will be reduced only when the mind's agitations, vikshepas are quietened. As agitations quieten, sattva increases slowly. ~ Swami Chinmayananda, #KEYS
406:His will be done! He is omnipotent! What power has man? All that you can do is to love God. Have intense yearning for Him. The whole world is mad for something; why run mad after fleeting objects of this world? Better be mad for God. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
407:It ought to be distinctly understood that sin is incurred by coming in contact with sinners, and nobility in the company of good persons; and keeping aloof from the wicked is the external purification. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
408:Unless there is self-effort, nothing can be accomplished. The illumined souls show us the path. Isn't that a great help? But we have to walk it. If you open your hearts to us we can show you the path, because we have walked the path. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
409:You dissipate your desire for the Self by undertaking all kinds of useless activities that waste your time and lead to attachments. You think that your life is endless and that you can put off meditation till a later date. ~ Annamalai Swami, Final Talks, #KEYS
410:You must never cease from calling on the Lord, and know this for certain that the Lord's name cuts through all obstacles. However it may be - be it perfectly or imperfectly - keep on repeating His name, which has a power of its own. ~ SWAMI SUBODHANANDA, #KEYS
411:A strictly moral life, selfless activity in the interest of others, holy studies and spiritual practices, are needed to remove all the impurities lying hidden in our mind. This is the only way of attaining the highest illumination. ~ SWAMI YATISWARANANDA, #KEYS
412:If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
413:Learn to grow love for God. Take delight in thinking of Him. Then dispassion, discrimination—all the virtues—will come to you naturally. Let the current of your thought go to Him always. Feel that you have no other refuge but God. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
414:There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
415:You must work constantly, day and night devote your whole energy, and let the results remain in the hands of the Lord. Let every action of your daily life be a free offering to the world. Let us all work for others and die for others, ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
416:Let your heart burn away with yearning for God! Feel that life is not worth living without Him! Then He will reveal Himself! As the poor man longs for wealth, as the lustful man longs for a woman, so must the devotee long for the Lord. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
417:Sadhana should be done in private—the more secluded, the better. It should not be done before others, as that can stimulate one's ego. The Master used to say: 'Sadhana is to be done mentally, in some corner, or some secluded place.' ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
418:Serve your parents. Never let them suffer the pangs of starvation or the lack of clothing. God becomes angry with the person who fails to provide one's parents with food and clothing or causes them anguish by speaking harshly to them. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
419:Without heart, everything else counts for nought. Unless the heart expands, nothing else will avail. One's heart must feel for others; one must identify oneself with the happiness and sorrows of others; then only will God be realized. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
420:Do not ask anything from God because God already knows your needs. There is difference between need, want, wish, and desire. Our days are laden with wants and nights with desires. Thus we remain disturbed all the time and put the blame on God. ~ SWAMI RAMA, #KEYS
421:If we wanted to lift our mind up towards God, we must have to bring it back from all external things and concentrate it at one point. But how to concentrate the scattered mind? This can be effected by faith in God or in one's own Guru. ~ SWAMI SUBODHANANDA, #KEYS
422:If you want to ask your Guru anything regarding your Sadhana, you must do so in private. I have seen in the case of Sri Ramakrishna how He would take each disciple alone and give him in private the special instructions necessary for him. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
423:We want spiritual ideals before us, we want enthusiastically to gather around grand spiritual names. Our heroes must be spiritual. Such a hero has been given to us in the person of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
424:Worldly joys lose their flavour when one gets a taste of Bliss Divine. All objects of enjoyment appear to be not only insignificant but positively bitter. Offer yourself, heart and soul, to the Lord and let Him do with you as He pleases. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
425:The gradual inward progress is mostly silent and unseen, like the quiet unfolding of a bud into a flower in the hours of the night. Therefore, do not be dejected. Do not depress yourself with the idea that you are not progressing. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
426:Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Maya. Fear not — it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies. Be not afraid. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
427:Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.
~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Bhagavad Gita,#KEYS
428:One must be bold enough to face everything in order to serve the Ideal. Truth can never be realized by weak-minded people. Our task in life must be done boldly. Fear none. Divinity and purity are your birthright. Have faith and struggle on. ~ SWAMI PARAMANANDA, #KEYS
429:Such is the Guru, "Who has himself crossed this terrible ocean of life, and without any idea of gain to himself, helps others also to cross the ocean." This is the Guru, and mark that none else can be a Guru. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
430:You must have faith in the enlightened souls and carry on your religious practices accordingly. Trying to understand the pros and cons of their teachings with our impure minds - occupied as they are with thoughts of the world leads nowhere. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
431:To think that this world is the aim and end of life is brutal and degenerating. Any man who starts in life with that idea degenerates himself He will never rise higher, he will always be a slave to the senses. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
432:We have to train the mind in such a way that it may act according to our command. It must not be our master. The only way to train the mind is to lead it to relinquish the desire for enjoyment. The moment this is done, it becomes your slave. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
433:If you want to be great, give up hatred. Then God's grace will descend on you. No one can become great unless God makes one great. A hateful man can never make progress. If you want to rise high up, renounce hatred. Perform good works alone. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
434:Who enjoys the show? The actor or the spectator? Learn to be witness. Stand aside and watch the play. Don't get involved. Don't talk much. Speech is silver, silence is golden. Look and listen attentively. Many want to talk. Few care to listen. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
435:Without continence nothing great can be achieved. Without absolute continence, you can neither have perfect health, nor be able to do good to others, or attain realization. Continence is such a great power, so noble, so necessary for all. ~ SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA, #KEYS
436:Bhakti-Yoga is the science of higher love. Bhakti-Yoga does not say: "Give up"; it only says: "Love; love the Highest!" — and everything low naturally falls off from him, the object of whose love is the Highest. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
437:How to concentrate the scattered mind? the mind which has been distributed to wife and children, to the attainment of name and fame and to the pursuit of all sorts of sensual pleasures? This can be effected by faith in God or in one's own Guru. ~ SWAMI SUBODHANANDA, #KEYS
438:The dirt of the mind is washed away if one can think of the Lord and meditate on Him; if one can cry unto Him with repentance, saying, "Lord! forgive me. I will not do wrong in the future." At once the magnet of God draws the needle of the mind. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
439:Be pure. Then you will be able to understand everything. Pray to Him. Crave for the strength to develop purity. Everything will happen by His grace. Unless He bestows the power, no one can become pure. Purity, purity, purity—chant this mantra. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
440:Do not agitate yourself, dreaming up all sorts of projects. The Lord does His work. You be the instrument. If the idea that 'I am the doer' gets hold of a person, it will be the cause of bondage, and no permanent good ever comes out of such deeds. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
441:An aspirant must control the dissipation of the mind. Conquest over the senses and the mind helps one to attain freedom from the charms and temptations of the world. Free from worldly distractions, nothing remains in the mind but the longing to know God. ~ SWAMI RAMA, #KEYS
442:Do not be carried away by name and fame. You can renounce your wife, children, parents, house, friends, and relatives. It is very, very difficult to renounce the intellectual pleasure, the pleasure from name and fame. I seriously warn you. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
443:He, who meditates well, attains power to work more efficiently. He is never tired, because his energy is not mis-spent in any way: he is never annoyed nor worried, he is not attached to anything. Always be calm, go on working without any fatigue. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
444:How many people want to hear about God? That desire comes through God's special grace. Real yearning for God is the result of associating with the holy, and a person gets the opportunity for holy company only as a result of many good actions. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
445:Whatever kind of thought arises, have the same reaction: 'Not me, not my business'. It can be a good thought or a bad thought. Treat them the same way. To whom are these thoughts arising? To you. That means you are not the thought. You are the Self. ~ Annamalai Swami, #KEYS
446:You say solitude is necessary. The solitude that is wanted is mostly mental. Even in the midst of a crowd you can be at peace if the mind is trained properly. If you go into solitude and brood upon your own thoughts, it will lead you to lunacy. ~ Swami Yatiswarananda, #KEYS
447:Have no private selfish end, but have sincere love for truth and piety, and Mother shall speak from within you. Never let go your ideal, but hold on to it with a firm grip, and you will be led rightly to the goal, which is the one and same for all. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
448:Īśvara is the Atman as seen or grasped by mind. His highest name is ॐ; so repeat it, meditate on it, and think of all its wonderful nature and attributes. Repeating ॐ continually is the only true worship. It is not a word, it is God Himself. ~ Swami Vivekananda? #KEYS
449:You must give up the idea that you are something. That you do or do not do, both must be given up. Give up taking the credit for anything; root out this idea, then you will become unselfish. Root out all selfish desires and you will reach the goal. ~ SWAMI PARAMANANDA, #KEYS
450:Always discriminate between what you really are and what you appear to be. Always use the power of right understanding, and you will know for yourself where you are, how much you have progressed, and how far you have to go to reach your destination. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
451:Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this Shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
452:Let the Sadhana be regular, continuous, unbroken, and earnest. Not only regularity, but also continuity in Sadhana and meditation is necessary if you want to attain Self-realization quickly. A spiritual stream once set going does not dry up. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
453:Many objects of temptation are there in front of you, and the mind is a rascal. No matter how much you educate it, it will run only in that direction. How many have the power to stop that? So it is best to stay away from the objects of temptations. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
454:A man who does the lower work is not, for that reason only, a lower man than he who does the higher works; a man should not be judged by the nature of his duties, but by the manner in which he does them. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. V. 239), #KEYS
455:Unless one has acquired the habit of constantly thinking of God by long practice, everything becomes confused on account of the pangs of death, and one cannot think of God even once. So what is necessary is constantly meditate on Him and pray to Him. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
456:Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
457:Know that the Divine Name plants itself in the mind through repetition. The mind is running restlessly intoxicated by desires. Cultivate detachment towards the cravings and be always practicing. By constant practice the mind will gradually quiet down. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
458:Fanaticism rises from man's will to dominate others. Once it is born, it brings in its frame a lot of other evils. It blinds man's vision and stirs up the animal in him. It hardens man's heart, destroys all sublime sentiments that give sanctity to life. ~ Swami Abhedananda, #KEYS
459:May divine wisdom open to you, through the Lord's grace! To make all mankind your own by loving all — that is the real Jnana, the real Bhakti of this age. Work and serve with all your heart, and thus you will receive Bhakti, Moksha, Jnana, and Vijnana. ~ Swami Premananda, #KEYS
460:You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
461:You will find that there are many subtle impressions, habits of thought and action lying dormant and hidden in the subconscious regions of the mind. Analyze yourself in solitude, find out the obstacles and then struggle without compromise to remove them. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
462:Have faith that we have to regain our lost Self and 'Stop not till the goal is reached.' Remember these words of Swamiji, 'Do not forget the ideal - do not cut it down.' Let this body perish, still do not lower the ideal. Pray for strength. Pray always. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
463:Prophets and incarnations who have come and gone have shown us one thing, that we too can become heirs of knowledge and power like themselves - if we only have the will. If we struggle, walking the path taken by them, we too will reach that goal one day. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
464:Whatever you do, see, or hear, think that to be God. It is all play, a game with Him. Know life to be a game, in which Mother Herself is the Player and you are Her playmate. The world will be quite different when you know that Mother is playing with you. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
465:You can meditate and chant the name of the Lord very well sitting on a chair. There is no rule regarding time and place for meditating on the Lord and repeating His holy name, What is needed is to remember our Chosen Ideal always and in all circumstances. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
466:Your eyes are blindfolded; because there is the cloud of Maya before you. Your mind is dirty. Wash it, cleanse it - this is Sadhana. Faith and conviction of mind will grow according to your surroundings. That is why the company of holy men is necessary. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
467:Call upon God by whatever name or form you like. But should anyone ask you about your Chosen Ideal, stop talking to him that instant. There is a great possibility of harm to the aspirant if such private subjects of spiritual life are disclosed to others. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
468:Here is the secret of happiness. Forget yourself and think of others." ~ Swami Paramananda, (1884-1940), an early Indian teacher who went to the United States to spread the Vedanta philosophy. He was a mystic, a poet and an innovator in spiritual community living, Wikipedia., #KEYS
469:Inside the body there is desire and greed; inside the mind there is doubt; inside the world there is change, there is death. Go beyond these and you will find peace and bliss. Until you go beyond them, you can never realize what peace and bliss mean. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
470:Be resigned to the Mother. Pray to Her earnestly, crying like a child, and you will discover the Light. Whenever we asked the Master, he told us also: ''Pray sincerely to the Mother, and She will straighten the path". He gave us this advice again and again. ~ Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
471:It is very good to dream of the Guru, the Chosen Ideal and of Gods and Goddesses. It encourages and delights the mind greatly. If you experience them, do not go about talking about them to anybody and everybody, you can tell them to your Guru, if you like. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
472:Let the strong wind of dispassion rise in your minds, that the trees of desire be uprooted. Then, even as birds fly from the shelter of trees before a strong wind, will the ignorance of selfishness, jealousy, hatred, and egoism take flight from your hearts. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
473:We must have a hold on the spiritual and secular education of the nation. Do you understand that? You must dream it, you must talk it, you must think it and you must work it out. Till then there is no salvation for the race. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
474:Do not seek for human help, but look only to the grace of the Lord. He will protect you. Pray to Him & depend on Him alone. Human help is so uncertain. Human friends are selfish and they betray; but He is the Divine Friend, who loves for the sake of love. ~ SWAMI PARAMANANANDA, #KEYS
475:If the mind does not become steadily fixed at the feet of Sri Sri Thakur, then pray to Him with yearning - 'O Thakur, please make my mind steady,' Know definitely that Sri Sri Thakur is hearing all your words and is able to know all your thoughts and moods. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
476:How rare is selflessness! Selfishness and self-advertisement are rampant everywhere! How little of the mind is given to God and how much of it to the world and its objects! Unless you have dispassion toward the world, you cannot attain knowledge or devotion. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
477:Men know full well that if they put their hand into the fire, it will get burned; still they do it again and again. Not only that; they invite others to do likewise. If any man differs from them, they call him mad and even go to the point of persecuting him. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
478:Science is the struggle of man in the outer world. Religion is the struggle of man in the inner world. Both struggles are great, no doubt, but one ends in success and the other ends in failure. That is the difference. Religion begins where science ends. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
479:Take everyone where he or she stands, without blaming them for their worldly or spiritual poverty & ignorance, & help them on until each one realizes the highest Jnana, Bhakti, eternal freedom & bliss - in fact, until each one realizes the supreme goal. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
480:The Lord is making you His own. He will not allow even the slightest ego to remain within you. The sufferings and difficulties you are undergoing are intended to make you realize that you have no independent will of you own. It is all given over to the Lord. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
481:For God u must renounce 'lust & greed', then finer desires - desire for name & fame - finer & finer, by degrees. As renunciation has no limit, so bliss is also without any limit. Bliss comes out of renunciation. The more the renunciation, the more the bliss. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
482:Great is the influence of desires that if they once leave an impression on your mind, they will drag you down lower and lower; yet they will not let you feel your downward course. The only way to be saved from these dangers is to offer yourself solely to God. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
483:Keep your mind always in communion with God; then all depravity of the mind will vanish. Select a room for daily worship; every morning and evening retire there and sit on your Asanam; then perform Japam and Meditation and prayer regularly as long as you can. ~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
484:Our life-blood is spirituality. If it flows clear, if it flows strong & pure & vigorous, everything is right; political, social, any other material defects, even the poverty of the land, will all be cured if that blood is pure. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
485:Whining or self-pity is of no use at all. "I am too wretched, worthless, vile & weak; I cannot do anything by myself." These are the words of the namby-pamby, the do-nothing imbeciles. Can anything be done by such people? Strive hard, be wide awake & push on. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
486:Give up all desires & dedicate yourself solely to the Lord. You cannot have Divine bliss & worldly enjoyments at the same time. You cannot get the one without renouncing the other. You cannot give up the lower unless you come to possess a taste for the higher. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
487:If you can resist impulse to claim each & every thought as your own, you will come to a startling conclusion: you will discover that you are the consciousness in which the thoughts appear & disappear & that mind only exists when thoughts are allowed to run free. ~ Annamalai Swami, #KEYS
488:The Guru should not be looked upon as an ordinary human being. His physical body is the temple, in which resides the Lord. If the Guru is served with this idea in mind, one comes to acquire love and devotion for him, which can then be directed toward the Lord. ~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
489:The Lord is within you, He is seated in your heart. Whatever you see, hear, taste & touch is God. Therefore hate not anybody, cheat not anybody, harm not anybody. Love & be one with all. You will soon attain eternal bliss, immortality, & perennial joy. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
490:The ocean is full of precious pearls,but you may not get them at the first dive. My boys, once again I enjoin you, have firm faith in the words of your Guru, & try to get absorbed in deep meditation. Be sure, sooner or later you will have a vision of the Lord. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
491:What is the goal of spiritual practices? It is to realize God, to attain Divine grace. The practices are meant to clear the heart of all the impurities brought there by lust & greed. Unless this is done, you can never reach your goal, however much you may try. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
492:You must have a mind that will obey u at all times sincerely & carry out all ur commands in the best possible manner at any time. Steady & systematic practice of Yoga will make the mind very obedient & faithful. You will be successful in every attempt. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
493:Do not look at the things of the world. If you do so, you will get lost in them. So great is the influence of desires that if they once leave an impression on your mind, they will drag you down lower & lower; yet they will not let you feel your downward course. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
494:Do not start meditating immediately after sitting on the asana. Observe the mind for some time. Observe what it is doing. You will see that gradually the flickering of mind will stop. The mind will be concentrated. Then meditate. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
495:Go on repeating the Master's name & peace will be yours. All the sins of the body & the mind are washed away if one looks at Him for some time. He can see through your mind, He understands everything. Confide in Him. But don't approach Him with selfish desires ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
496:How can we seek freedom when we do not know that we are bound. First of all, we shall have to examine our own nature whether we are free or bound then we can search for liberation. Very few indeed in this world can realize that we are living the life of a slave ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
497:One cannot have realization without the grace of the God. Cry to Him and pray & you will have His grace. He is right inside. You will realize Him the moment He lifts the veil of ignorance. It is grace & grace alone that we need. There is no other way. ~ Manapurush Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
498:One cannot have realization without the grace of the God. Cry to Him & pray and you will have His grace. He is right inside. You will realize Him the moment He lifts the veil of ignorance. It is grace & grace alone that we need. There is no other way. ~ Manapurush Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
499:Tapasya lies in three things:1) You must be very truthful. Truth is the pillar, to which you must always hold. Every inch of you must be truthful. 2) You must get rid of lust. 3) You must gain control over your Vasanas. These are the main things to be observed. ~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
500:The name of the Lord purifies both the body & the mind. "I have taken the name of God; what have I to fear? What is there in the world to bind me? I have become immortal by taking the Lord's name with such a burning faith one should practice spiritual exercises ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
501:You must feel that the person who blames you is yourself & the person who praises you is also yourself. You won't lose your good qualities just because somebody speaks ill of you. So let them criticize. I shall remain undisturbed by the praise or blame of others ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
502:Japa brings perfection & fulfillment, this is certainly true. When japa becomes very absorbing, meditation & holding the mind become spontaneous. Like an unbroken stream of oil, japa flows incessantly. Then the external japa comes to an end; japa continues within ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
503:To practice spiritual disciplines in a haphazard, lazy way means that there is not that earnest desire to attain God. Practice must be performed with eagerness, in a systematic, orderly manner. One must not be guided by mere emotion but use one's intellect as well ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
504:Nobody will able to get anything for you ; you will have to do it yourself. God will help you and bestow His grace upon you if you set yourself to work in dead earnest. Even God Himself carries the burden of such one upon His shoulders and leads him part of the way.~ Swami Virajananda, #KEYS
505:Prayer does not demand high intelligence or eloquence. God wants your heart when you pray. Even a few words from a pure, humble soul, though illiterate, appeals to God more than the eloquent, flowing words of an orator. Pray to God freely like a little child ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
506:Just cry for one night, saying: 'O Lord, I am a fool, without any intelligence. I do not know anything. I do not understand anything. You show me everything. You please give me understanding. You appear before me.' One such earnest prayer will change things overnight ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
507:Look at those poor slaves to duty! Duty leaves them no time to say prayers, no time to bathe. Duty is ever on them. The only true duty is to be unattached and to work as free beings, to give up all work unto God. All our duties are His. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
508:Repression of passions is bad. Unless the mind is directed toward a high ideal, they will find expression through other channels. Place your mind in God, then all evil will fall away by itself. That is what is meant by self-control; it arises from devotion to the Lord ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
509:Stick to God ! Who cares what comes to the body or to anything else. Through the terrors of evil, say -- my God, my love ! Through the pangs of death, say -- my God, my love ! Through all the evils under the sun, say -- my God, my love. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
510:The really earnest and alert aspirant finds lessons in every object around him. Every moment of his life is a moment of choice between the true and the false. Every spiritual aspirant must be wide-awake and keep the fire of discrimination always bright in his heart.~ Swami Yatiswarananda, #KEYS
511:We utter the name of the Lord superficially, too superficially. We say, 'I am Thy servant; Thou art my Master; Thou art my Lord; I have renounced all for Thee; I call Thee, Lord, come unto me.' But we harbor withal all sorts of evil thoughts in the mind. This won't do ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
512:What is the ego? A mere soap-bubble. One blow will break it and reveal its hollowness. We must get rid of the ego and reach the stage where we can say sincerely 'Not I, Not I, but Thou.' When you have been able to put down the ego, love of God will come of itself ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
513:Discriminate: there is no real happiness in life, as misery follows happiness; life after life this oscillation between this pair of opposites is continuing. No more of this. Now start on the search for unalloyed happiness. Seek that happiness which is not adulterated ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
514:Misery and difficulties come at times to strengthen our character. They are like examinations. We must prepare and pass them. Know that they are very good for the formation of character. The more we meet with difficulties, the more we remember our Mother for protection.~ Swami Paramananda, #KEYS
515:Steadiness in devotion means that though you may be busy with many things, still your mind is always turned towards God. It should be like the needle of the compass; the needle may swing a little to this side or that, but always has tendency to point back to north ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
516:There is no allegiance possible where there is no character in the leader, and perfect purity ensures the most lasting allegiance and confidence. There must not be a hade of jealousy or selfishness, then you are a leader. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 284), #KEYS
517:What business had anybody to direct and dictate to anyone what he should worship and through what? How could any other man know through what he would grow, whether his spiritual growth would be by worshiping an image, by worshiping fire, or by worshiping even a pillar? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
518:Jul 9 First thing you should learn is how to be still physically. Take one month for stilling the body. You will find that you are able to easily arrest the twitching, tremors, & jerks. When the body is still, you will find great joy & confidence. Learn to enjoy that stillness.~ Swami Rama, #KEYS
519:Anything that is secret and mysterious in these systems of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. Mystery-mongering weakens the human brain. It has well-nigh destroyed Yoga — one of the grandest of sciences. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
520:Try diligently to check this mad outward rush of your mind. You can do this if you do not try to meditate as soon as you sit down. First draw the mind back from its external pursuits by means of discrimination, & lock it up inside, at the sacred feet of your Chosen Ideal.~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
521:Men are guided by their own nature, whether good or bad; there is no gainsaying that. But in the world, there are always some who get intoxicated when they hear of God, and shed tears of joy when they read of God. Such men are true Bhaktas. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
522:One cannot become a bhakta just by uttering a few devotional words or shedding a few tears. Only one in whom genuine devotion has blossomed is a true bhakta. When one attains such devotion, one becomes God-like; no hatred, jealousy, or egotism can remain in such a person ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
523:Our first & foremost duty in life is to realize God. Know that He is the Pillar. Whatever you do, do clasping Him; then you will not take any false step & fall. What you do will be right & will be for the good of yourself & of the world. Blessed will be your life on earth.~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
524:Spirituality is impossible for him who does not cherish truthfulness in thought, word, and deed; without this, all attempt is in vain. So, first of all try to be unflinchingly truthful with all heart and soul. Truth is ever victorious in all times-past, present, and future ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
525:If u have the power to go inside urself, then u have conquered the whole Universe. To go inside oneself means to go away from earthly attachments that hold u down like a captive balloon. Though it is very difficult it is possible thro either discrimination or devotion ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
526:Our cravings alone keep us separated from God. Root out all desires and call on Him! If He wills that the body should die, let it die while chanting His name! By worldly standards a man may be great. But he too in some life or other will have to renounce everything for God.~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
527:Apr 28 The Master Himself said, 'You should meditate on this portrait of Mine & that will do.' By invoking the Master one can have so many visions of light. But He must be invoked heart & soul. He is the light of the world & all-pervading. His manifestations are everywhere.~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
528:Doing good to others is virtue; injuring other is sin. Strength & courage are virtue; weakness & cowardice are sin. Independence is virtue; dependence is sin. Loving others is virtue; hating others is sin. Faith in God is virtue; doubt is sin. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
529:Do not stop the Sadhana when you get a few glimpses of realization. Continue practice till you are fully established in the unconditioned Brahman. If you stop practice & move about in the world, there is every likelihood of a downfall. The reaction will be tremendous ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
530:We should always try to see the duty of others through their own eyes, and never judge the customs of other peoples by our own standard. I am not the standard of the universe. I have to accommodate myself to the world, and not the world to me. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
531:God is always inside and also outside, telling us to shed fears and worries. 'You can't run away from Me,' says He. But I am ever inside you; seek and you shall find,The moment you attain complete mastery over your passions, you will get Me within you, effulgent and blissful ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
532:We have to conquer the world. That we have to! India must conquer the world, and nothing less than that is my ideal. It may be very big, it may astonish many of you, but it is so. We must conquer the world or die. There is no other alternative. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
533:Jul 12 The more your love for God increases, the more you will feel the insignificance of sensual pleasures. You are being protected by Him, so no woman can harm you. He, who hates women, is still feeling the pinch of lust. So it is certain, that one day he will go astray.~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
534:Meditation is not an easy thing. Eat a bit more & your mind will not settle that day. When lust, anger, greed & the whole host of evil passions are kept under control, then alone does meditation become possible. If any one of these asserts itself, meditation will be impossible.~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
535:There can be no true devotion without serving the Personal God. If u seek the truth within urself, with earnestness & sincerity, u are a devotee. Have true love for ur Ideal, whatever u may call Him. Serve Him faithfully, with unselfishness & purity, & u will get true devotion.~ Swami Paramananda, #KEYS
536:Desire to have Him. Be angry with Him. Ask Him, 'Why are You not coming to me?' Direct all emotions - love, anger, etc., towards Him. Be greedy to taste His playful life, His name and form. Be infatuated with His beauty. Feel proud that you have loved Him and got His assurance ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
537:How long will you keep turning the rosary beads? Call on Him with intense longing. Gradually everything will come to a standstill. The rosary beads will stop, the fingers will not move, even the lips will not open to utter His name. All bonds will fall off,even that of clothes ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
538:Wherever the Lord keeps you, that will be for your good. He knows best. Leave everything to Him & don't forget Him - that is your duty. It is His responsibility where & in what condition to keep you & what He will make you do. For your part, just see that you may not forget Him.~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
539:Be earnest & be impatient. Not that you have to repeat His name so many hundreds of times, or that you have to do so much penance. But you have to cry aloud earnestly and piteously, 'Appear before me, appear You must. Show Yourself to me.' Cry to Him with heart full of yearning ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
540:Beware, that you do not miss this rare opportunity of reaching your desired goal. Be up & doing. Realize God. Do not pay heed to anything else; look up to Him alone. He will take your whole burden. Then you will see that all your lower desires & cravings will leave you altogethe ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
541:Do u ever weep for God? How wonderful is the state when the name of the Lord brings tears to the eyes! The Master said, 'if u weep before the Lord, ur tears wipe out the mind's impurities of many births, & his grace immediately descends upon u. It is good to weep before the Lord.~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
542:He is only our Beloved, and we should adore Him devoid all thoughts of fear. A man loves God only when he has no other desire, when he thinks of nothing else and when he is mad after Him. That love which a man has for his beloved can illustrate the love we ought to have for God. ~ Swami Vivekananda? #KEYS
543:Those who come under the guidance of a Guru need have no anxiety about their spiritual progress. They have been put on the right way. Their only task is to follow it. If they meet with any trouble or make any mistake, the Lord is sure to protect them & show them the right course ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
544:Whatever type of karma one performs, one's mind will become exactly like that. The mind of one who performs noble and holy work becomes broad, elevated, and pure. Work done for God makes the mind go towards God; it is the attitude that matters, not the external form of the work ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
545:Do not think of anything except God; only then lust, greed, & other enemies will be automatically conquered. When these enemies are conquered & the mind is settled, that very God whose eternal nature is Truth will manifest. Until the mind is settled, God will not manifest Himself~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
546:That life which has passed thro spiritual regeneration will last for ever. It is of the spirit, & not subject to destruction or decay. The law of physical regeneration is the law of physical change, but the law of spiritual regeneration brings about thor change of human life ~ SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA, #KEYS
547:That which differentiates one thing from another is time, space, and causation.
The differentiation is in the form, not in the substance.
You may destroy the form and it disappears for ever; but the substance remains the same. You can never destroy the substance. ~ Swami Vivekananda,#KEYS
548:The charm of Maya is so irresistible, it is only when God is gracious to us that we can lift the veil and get a little glimpse of Him. All Maya is localized in ego. Take away the ego and the whole structure of Maya will fall. Then you will realize a state of perfect calmness ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
549:Apr 20 Do not publicize ur spiritual life by beating drums. Practice ur disciplines secretly so that people may not know about them. There are various types of people in this world. Some may destroy ur spiritual mood thro criticism, & some may inflate ur ego by praising ur efforts.~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
550:Holy companionship has the power of generating love for God. Who is really holy man? The man in whose heart sits God Himself. It is only as the result of merit earned in a succession of lives that one has the good fortune to associate with holy people & be blessed by the ~ Manapurush Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
551:Don't think you cannot control the mind. This is like a course, & it is a well tried course. You should take it. Japa, fasting, keeping vigil - make some simple resolutions & try to keep to that. It will be very easy to have a hold on your mind and your will power will increas ~ SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA, #KEYS
552:It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
553:Jul 16 There is infinite strength in you. Never lose faith in yourself, my boy; God is in you. And His grace too. He is gracious to all. … Have faith, therefore; have firm faith in Him. Work hard with unshakable determination, and He will give you all knowledge. Strive unceasingly.~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
554:Apr 21 Our Master & Swamiji make a complete ideal. You are to advance with these ideals before you. What more? Look at their renunciation and spiritual practices. Again look at their feeling for the sufferings of the people & their attempts to ameliorate them. This is spiritual life.~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
555:You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul." ~ Swami Vivekananda, (1863-1902), Indian Hindu monk, Introduced the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world, Wikipedia., #KEYS
556:Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Maya. Fear not — it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies. Be not afraid. Think not how many times you fail. Never mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
557:Be firm, steady, & steadfast. People will mock at you; be silent. People will insult you; be silent. People will spread evil rumours about you; be silent. Stick to the spiritual path. Do not swerve. Seek the truth wherever it may lead you to, & whatever be the cost and sacrifice ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
558:Do not test ur spiritual strength & purity when u are a beginner on the spiritual path. Do not rush into evil associations when u are a spiritual neophyte to show that u have the courage to face sin & impurity. It will be a serious mistake. You will be running into a grave danger~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
559:God is one the paths to reach him (religions) are many - just as different rivers, originating in different mountains, traverse different paths, flowing straight or crooked, and at last join the ocean. He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
560:Be content to work, and, above all, be true to yourself. Be pure, staunch, and sincere to the very backbone, and everything will be all right. If you have marked anything in the disciples of Shri Ramakrishna, it is this — they are sincere to the backbone. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
561:That brain which cannot think high & noble thoughts, which has lost all power of originality, which has lost all vigour, that brain which is always poisoning itself with all sorts of little superstitions passing under the name of religion, we must beware of. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
562:Bhakti can be more easily practiced by persons in every condition of life. Extreme love for God is Bhakti. The great quality of Bhakti is that it cleanses the mind, and the firmly established Bhakti for the Supreme Lord is alone sufficient to purify the mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
563:Fire and enthusiasm must be in our blood. I believe we have it. Intellect is great indeed, but it stops within certain bounds. It is through the heart, & the heart alone, that inspiration comes. It is through the feelings that the highest secrets are reached. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
564:Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith I had when I was a child, & which I am working out now. Have that faith, each one of you, in yourself, that eternal power is lodged in every soul ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
565:Oct 22 Every bit of Sadhana done is surely recorded without fail in your hidden consciousness. No Sadhana ever goes in vain. Every bit of it is credited immediately towards your evolution. This is the law. Think not negative thoughts, but calmly go on with the Sadhana. Be regular at it.~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
566:This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
567:Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith I had when I was a child, & which I am working out now. Have that faith, each one of you,in yourself — that eternal power is lodged in every soul ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
568:Aug 6 The Divine Mother is the power of all causation. She energizes every cause unmistakably to produce the effect. Her will is the only law, and as She cannot make a mistake, nature's laws--Her will--can never be changed. She is the life of the law of karma, or causation.~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
569:Oct 23 It is not Bhakti if we worship God with the desire for a son; if we worship with the desire to be rich; it is not Bhakti even if we have a desire for heaven; and with the desire of being saved from the tortures of hell. Bhakti is not the outcome of fear or greediness.~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
570:My ideal is growth, expansion, development on national lines. I have no words of condemnation for my nation. I tell,"You have done well; only try to do better." Great things have been done in the past in this land, & there is both time & room for greater things to be done yet.~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
571:He is only our Beloved, and we should adore Him devoid all thoughts of fear. A man loves God only when he has no other desire, when he thinks of nothing else and when he is mad after Him. That love which a man has for his beloved can illustrate the love we ought to have for God ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
572:Spirituality can never be attained unless all material ideas are given up.. What is in the senses? The senses are all delusion. People wish to retain them [in heaven] even after they are dead — a pair of eyes, a nose. Some imagine they will have more organs than they have now.~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
573:God is love personified. He is apparent in everything. Everybody is being drawn to Him whether he knows it or not. The God of Love is to be worshiped & when we think Him to be Love Incarnate, seeing Him in all things & all things in Him, it is then that supreme Bhakti is attaine ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
574:The internal purification is a task more severe. It consists in speaking the truth, sensing the poor, helping the needy, etc. One who has cleansed both the inner & the outer self is alone capable of Bhakti. But the beauty is that Bhakti itself cleanses the mind to a great extent ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
575:You have been changing every moment of your life. You were a child & thought in one way, now you are a man & think another way, again you will be an old man & think differently. Everybody is changing. If so,where is your individuality? Certainly not in the body,mind,or in thought~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
576:Through thousands of years of chiseling & modelling, the lives of the great prophets of yore come down to us; & yet, in my opinion, not one stands so high in brilliance as that life which I saw with my own eyes, at whose feet I have learnt everything —the life of Sri Ramakrishna~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
577:Jul 14 Time is infinite. Go forward: assert yourself again and again, and light must come. You may pray to everyone that was ever born, but who will come to help you? And what of the way of death from which none knows escape? Help thyself out by thyself. None else can help thee, friend.~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
578:Bhagavan: God is of course necessary, for most people. They can go on with one, till they find out that they and God are not different.
The Swami continued, "In actual practice, sadhakas, even sincere ones, sometimes become dejected and lose faith in God. How to restore their faith? What should we do for them?" ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Day by Day,#KEYS
579:Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if I can rouse my countrymen, immersed in tamas, to stand on their own feet and be men inspired with the spirit of karma-yoga. I am a follower only of he or she who serves and helps others without caring for his own bhakti and mukti! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
580:Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
581:The Guru cannot make you realize the Truth unless you try hard for it yourself. The Guru can show you the way; can remove your doubts and difficulties, and correct your mistakes; can warn you if you go astray; can put you back on the right track; and can even take you some distance along it, holding you by the hand. But the walking you have to do yourself - he cannot carry you to the goal on his shoulders. ~ Swami Virajananda #KEYS
582:These ideas have to be understood in studying dhyana, or meditation. We hear a sound. First there is the external vibration; second, the nerve motion that carries it to the mind; third, the reaction from the mind, along with which flashes the knowledgeof the object which was the external cause of these different changes, from the ethereal vibrations to the mental reaction.
~ Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga, 84,#KEYS
583:Dana, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he is the highest man whose hand goes out in giving. The hand was made to give always. Give the last bit of bread you have even if you are starving. You will be free in a moment if you starve yourself to death by giving to another. Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
584:Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.
~ Swami Vivekananda,#KEYS
585:In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is the mother of the universe. It was a female sage who first found the unity of God, and laid down this doctrine in one of the first hy mns of the Vedas. Our God is both personal and absolute, the absolute is male, the personal, female. And thus it comes that we now say: 'The first manifestation of God is the hand that rocks the cradle'. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
586:Devotee: "That is all right, Swami. But, however much we try, this mind does not get under control and envelopes the Swarupa so that it is not perceptible to us. What is to be done?"
Bhagavan with a smile placed his little finger over his eye and said, "Look. This little finger covers the eye and prevents the whole world from being seen. In the same way this small mind covers the whole universe and prevents the Brahman from being seen. See how powerful it is!" ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Letters from Sri Ramanasramam,#KEYS
587:Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn't it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he can become God? Yes. But the poor pig does not think so at the time. Which state is my individuality? When I was a baby sprawling on the floor trying to swallow my thumb? Was that the individuality I should be sorry to lose? Fifty years hence I shall look upon this present state and laugh, just as I now look upon the baby state. Which of these individualities shall I keep? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
588:God is the one goal of all our passions and emotions. If you want to be angry, be angry with Him. Chide your Beloved, chide your Friend. Whom else can you safely chide? Mortal man will not patiently put up with your anger; there will be a reaction. If you are angry with me I am sure quickly to react, because I cannot patiently put up with your anger. Say unto the Beloved, "Why do You not come to me; why do You leave me thus alone?" Where is there any enjoyment but in Him? What enjoyment can there be in little clods of earth? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
589:Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced. Others are mere talking-machines. If we really want to be blessed and make others blessed, we must go deeper.
~ Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga, Pratyahara and Dharana, 73, [T4],#KEYS
590:Yoga, as Swami Vivekananda has said, may be regarded as a means of compressing one's evolution into a single life or a few years or even a few months of bodily existence. A given system of Yoga, then, can be no more than a selection or a compression, into narrower but more energetic forms of intensity, of the general methods which are already being used loosely, largely, in a leisurely movement, with a profuser apparent waste of material and energy but with a more complete combination by the great Mother in her vast upward labour.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Life and Yoga, [6],#KEYS
591:Turn your thoughts now, and lift up your thoughts to a devout and joyous contemplation on sage Vyasa and Vasishtha, on Narda and Valmiki. Contemplate on the glorious Lord Buddha, Jesus the Christ, prophet Mohammed, the noble Zoroaster (Zarathushtra), Lord Mahavira, the holy Guru Nanak. Think of the great saints and sages of all ages, like Yajnavalkya, Dattatreya, Sulabha and Gargi, Anasooya and Sabari, Lord Gauranga, Mirabai, Saint Theresa and Francis of Assisi. Remember St. Augustine, Jallaludin Rumi, Kabir, Tukaram, Ramdas, Ramakrishna Paramhamsa, Vivekananda and Rama Tirtha. Adore in thy heart the sacred memory of Mahatma Gandhi, sage Ramana Maharishi, Aurobindo Ghosh, Gurudev Sivananda and Swami Ramdas. They verily are the inspirers of humanity towards a life of purity, goodness and godliness. Their lives, their lofty examples, their great teachings constitute the real wealth and greatest treasure of mankind today.
~ Sri Chidananda, Advices On Spiritual Living,#KEYS
592: Swami Vivekananda summarised Yoga under four headings, and I do not think that one can improve on that classification. His four are: Gnana, Raja, Bhakti and Hatha, and comprise all divisions that it is desirable to make. As soon as one begins to add such sections as Mantra Yoga, you are adding to without enriching the classification, and once you begin Where are you to stop? But I honestly believe that the excessive simplication given in Eight Lectures on Yoga is a practical advantage. Any given type of Yogas is the work of a lifetime and for that reason alone it is desirable to confine oneself from the beginning to an absolutely simple programme.
What then is the difference between Yoga and Magick? Magick is extraversion, the discovery of and subsequently the classification of and finally the control of new worlds on new planes. So far as it concerns the development of the mind its object and method are perfectly simple. What is wanted is exaltation. The aim is to identify oneself with the highest essence of whatever world is under consideration. ~ Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears, 1.83 - Epistola Ultima,#KEYS
593:
An Informal Integral Canon: Selected books on Integral Science, Philosophy and the Integral Transformation
Sri Aurobindo - The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo - The Synthesis of Yoga
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - The Phenomenon of Man
Jean Gebser - The Ever-Present Origin
Edward Haskell - Full Circle - The Moral Force of Unified Science
Oliver L. Reiser - Cosmic Humanism and World Unity
Christopher Hills - Nuclear Evolution: Discovery of the Rainbow Body
The Mother - Mother's Agenda
Erich Jantsch - The Self-Organizing Universe - Scientific and Human Implications of the Emerging Paradigm of Evolution
T. R. Thulasiram - Arut Perum Jyothi and Deathless Body
Kees Zoeteman - Gaiasophy
Ken Wilber - Sex Ecology Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution
Don Edward Beck - Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership, and Change
Kundan Singh - The Evolution of Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo, Sri Ramakrishna, and Swami Vivekananda
Sean Esbjorn-Hargens - Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World
~ M Alan Kazlev, Kheper,#KEYS
594:He continuously reflected on her image and attributes, day and night. His bhakti was such that he could not stop thinking of her. Eventually, he saw her everywhere and in everything. This was his path to illumination.
He was often asked by people: what is the way to the supreme? His answer was sharp and definite: bhakti yoga. He said time and time again that bhakti yoga is the best sadhana for the Kali Yuga (Dark Age) of the present.
His bhakti is illustrated by the following statement he made to a disciple:
To my divine mother I prayed only for pure love.
At her lotus feet I offered a few flowers and I prayed:
Mother! here is virtue and here is vice;
Take them both from me.
Grant me only love, pure love for Thee.
Mother! here is knowledge and here is ignorance;
Take them both from me.
Grant me only love, pure love for Thee.
Mother! here is purity and impurity;
Take them both from me.
Grant me only love, pure love for Thee.
Ramakrishna, like Kabir, was a practical man.
He said: "So long as passions are directed towards the world and its objects, they are enemies. But when they are directed towards a deity, then they become the best of friends to man, for they take him to illumination. The desire for worldly things must be changed into longing for the supreme; the anger which you feel for fellow man must be directed towards the supreme for not manifesting himself to you . . . and so on, with all other emotions. The passions cannot be eradicated, but they can be turned into new directions."
A disciple once asked him: "How can one conquer the weaknesses within us?" He answered: "When the fruit grows out of the flower, the petals drop off themselves. So when divinity in you increases, the weaknesses of human nature will vanish of their own accord." He emphasized that the aspirant should not give up his practices. "If a single dive into the sea does not bring you a pearl, do not conclude that there are no pearls in the sea. There are countless pearls hidden in the sea.
So if you fail to merge with the supreme during devotional practices, do not lose heart. Go on patiently with the practices, and in time you will invoke divine grace." It does not matter what form you care to worship. He said: "Many are the names of the supreme and infinite are the forms through which he may be approached. In whatever name and form you choose to worship him, through that he will be realized by you." He indicated the importance of surrender on the path of bhakti when he said:
~ Swami Satyananda Saraswati, A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya,#KEYS
595:Death & Fame
When I die
I don't care what happens to my body throw ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East River bury an urn in Elizabeth New Jersey, B'nai Israel Cemetery
But I want a big funeral St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Mark's Church, the largest synagogue in Manhattan
First, there's family, brother, nephews, spry aged Edith stepmother 96, Aunt Honey from old Newark,
Doctor Joel, cousin Mindy, brother Gene one eyed one ear'd, sister-in-law blonde Connie, five nephews, stepbrothers & sisters their grandchildren, companion Peter Orlovsky, caretakers Rosenthal & Hale, Bill Morgan--
Next, teacher Trungpa Vajracharya's ghost mind, Gelek Rinpoche, there Sakyong Mipham, Dalai Lama alert, chance visiting America, Satchitananda Swami Shivananda, Dehorahava Baba, Karmapa XVI, Dudjom Rinpoche, Katagiri & Suzuki Roshi's phantoms Baker, Whalen, Daido Loorie, Qwong, Frail White-haired Kapleau Roshis, Lama Tarchen --
Then, most important, lovers over half-century Dozens, a hundred, more, older fellows bald & rich young boys met naked recently in bed, crowds surprised to see each other, innumerable, intimate, exchanging memories
"He taught me to meditate, now I'm an old veteran of the thousandday retreat --"
"I played music on subway platforms, I'm straight but loved him he loved me"
"I felt more love from him at 19 than ever from anyone"
"We'd lie under covers gossip, read my poetry, hug & kiss belly to belly arms round each other"
"I'd always get into his bed with underwear on & by morning my skivvies would be on the floor"
"Japanese, always wanted take it up my bum with a master"
"We'd talk all night about Kerouac & Cassady sit Buddhalike then sleep in his captain's bed."
"He seemed to need so much affection, a shame not to make him happy"
"I was lonely never in bed nude with anyone before, he was so gentle my stomach shuddered when he traced his finger along my abdomen nipple to hips-- "
"All I did was lay back eyes closed, he'd bring me to come with mouth & fingers along my waist"
"He gave great head"
So there be gossip from loves of 1948, ghost of Neal Cassady commin-gling with flesh and youthful blood of 1997 and surprise -- "You too? But I thought you were straight!"
"I am but Ginsberg an exception, for some reason he pleased me."
"I forgot whether I was straight gay queer or funny, was myself, tender and affectionate to be kissed on the top of my head, my forehead throat heart & solar plexus, mid-belly. on my prick, tickled with his tongue my behind"
"I loved the way he'd recite 'But at my back allways hear/ time's winged chariot hurrying near,' heads together, eye to eye, on a pillow --"
Among lovers one handsome youth straggling the rear
"I studied his poetry class, 17 year-old kid, ran some errands to his walk-up flat, seduced me didn't want to, made me come, went home, never saw him again never wanted to... "
"He couldn't get it up but loved me," "A clean old man." "He made sure I came first"
This the crowd most surprised proud at ceremonial place of honor--
Then poets & musicians -- college boys' grunge bands -- age-old rock star Beatles, faithful guitar accompanists, gay classical con-ductors, unknown high Jazz music composers, funky trum-peters, bowed bass & french horn black geniuses, folksinger fiddlers with dobro tamborine harmonica mandolin auto-harp pennywhistles & kazoos
Next, artist Italian romantic realists schooled in mystic 60's India, Late fauve Tuscan painter-poets, Classic draftsman Massa-chusets surreal jackanapes with continental wives, poverty sketchbook gesso oil watercolor masters from American provinces
Then highschool teachers, lonely Irish librarians, delicate biblio-philes, sex liberation troops nay armies, ladies of either sex
"I met him dozens of times he never remembered my name I loved him anyway, true artist"
"Nervous breakdown after menopause, his poetry humor saved me from suicide hospitals"
"Charmant, genius with modest manners, washed sink, dishes my studio guest a week in Budapest"
Thousands of readers, "Howl changed my life in Libertyville Illinois"
"I saw him read Montclair State Teachers College decided be a poet-- "
"He turned me on, I started with garage rock sang my songs in Kansas City"
"Kaddish made me weep for myself & father alive in Nevada City"
"Father Death comforted me when my sister died Boston l982"
"I read what he said in a newsmagazine, blew my mind, realized others like me out there"
Deaf & Dumb bards with hand signing quick brilliant gestures
Then Journalists, editors's secretaries, agents, portraitists & photo-graphy aficionados, rock critics, cultured laborors, cultural historians come to witness the historic funeral Super-fans, poetasters, aging Beatnicks & Deadheads, autograph-hunters, distinguished paparazzi, intelligent gawkers
Everyone knew they were part of 'History" except the deceased who never knew exactly what was happening even when I was alive
February 22, 1997
~ Allen Ginsberg,#KEYS
596:SECTION 1. Books for Serious Study
Liber CCXX. (Liber AL vel Legis.) The Book of the Law. This book is the foundation of the New Æon, and thus of the whole of our work.
The Equinox. The standard Work of Reference in all occult matters. The Encyclopaedia of Initiation.
Liber ABA (Book 4). A general account in elementary terms of magical and mystical powers. In four parts: (1) Mysticism (2) Magical (Elementary Theory) (3) Magick in Theory and Practice (this book) (4) The Law.
Liber II. The Message of the Master Therion. Explains the essence of the new Law in a very simple manner.
Liber DCCCXXXVIII. The Law of Liberty. A further explanation of The Book of the Law in reference to certain ethical problems.
Collected Works of A. Crowley. These works contain many mystical and magical secrets, both stated clearly in prose, and woven into the Robe of sublimest poesy.
The Yi King. (S. B. E. Series [vol. XVI], Oxford University Press.) The "Classic of Changes"; give the initiated Chinese system of Magick.
The Tao Teh King. (S. B. E. Series [vol. XXXIX].) Gives the initiated Chinese system of Mysticism.
Tannhäuser, by A. Crowley. An allegorical drama concerning the Progress of the Soul; the Tannhäuser story slightly remodelled.
The Upanishads. (S. B. E. Series [vols. I & XV.) The Classical Basis of Vedantism, the best-known form of Hindu Mysticism.
The Bhagavad-gita. A dialogue in which Krishna, the Hindu "Christ", expounds a system of Attainment.
The Voice of the Silence, by H.P. Blavatsky, with an elaborate commentary by Frater O.M. Frater O.M., 7°=48, is the most learned of all the Brethren of the Order; he has given eighteen years to the study of this masterpiece.
Raja-Yoga, by Swami Vivekananda. An excellent elementary study of Hindu mysticism. His Bhakti-Yoga is also good.
The Shiva Samhita. An account of various physical means of assisting the discipline of initiation. A famous Hindu treatise on certain physical practices.
The Hathayoga Pradipika. Similar to the Shiva Samhita.
The Aphorisms of Patanjali. A valuable collection of precepts pertaining to mystical attainment.
The Sword of Song. A study of Christian theology and ethics, with a statement and solution of the deepest philosophical problems. Also contains the best account extant of Buddhism, compared with modern science.
The Book of the Dead. A collection of Egyptian magical rituals.
Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, by Eliphas Levi. The best general textbook of magical theory and practice for beginners. Written in an easy popular style.
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage. The best exoteric account of the Great Work, with careful instructions in procedure. This Book influenced and helped the Master Therion more than any other.
The Goetia. The most intelligible of all the mediæval rituals of Evocation. Contains also the favourite Invocation of the Master Therion.
Erdmann's History of Philosophy. A compendious account of philosophy from the earliest times. Most valuable as a general education of the mind.
The Spiritual Guide of [Miguel de] Molinos. A simple manual of Christian Mysticism.
The Star in the West. (Captain Fuller). An introduction to the study of the Works of Aleister Crowley.
The Dhammapada. (S. B. E. Series [vol. X], Oxford University Press). The best of the Buddhist classics.
The Questions of King Milinda. (S. B. E. Series [vols. XXXV & XXXVI].) Technical points of Buddhist dogma, illustrated bydialogues.
Liber 777 vel Prolegomena Symbolica Ad Systemam Sceptico-Mysticæ Viæ Explicandæ, Fundamentum Hieroglyphicam Sanctissimorum Scientiæ Summæ. A complete Dictionary of the Correspondences of all magical elements, reprinted with extensive additions, making it the only standard comprehensive book of reference ever published. It is to the language of Occultism what Webster or Murray is to the English language.
Varieties of Religious Experience (William James). Valuable as showing the uniformity of mystical attainment.
Kabbala Denudata, von Rosenroth: also The Kabbalah Unveiled, by S.L. Mathers. The text of the Qabalah, with commentary. A good elementary introduction to the subject.
Konx Om Pax [by Aleister Crowley]. Four invaluable treatises and a preface on Mysticism and Magick.
The Pistis Sophia [translated by G.R.S. Mead or Violet McDermot]. An admirable introduction to the study of Gnosticism.
The Oracles of Zoroaster [Chaldæan Oracles]. An invaluable collection of precepts mystical and magical.
The Dream of Scipio, by Cicero. Excellent for its Vision and its Philosophy.
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, by Fabre d'Olivet. An interesting study of the exoteric doctrines of this Master.
The Divine Pymander, by Hermes Trismegistus. Invaluable as bearing on the Gnostic Philosophy.
The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians, reprint of Franz Hartmann. An invaluable compendium.
Scrutinium Chymicum [Atalanta Fugiens]¸ by Michael Maier. One of the best treatises on alchemy.
Science and the Infinite, by Sidney Klein. One of the best essays written in recent years.
Two Essays on the Worship of Priapus [A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus &c. &c. &c.], by Richard Payne Knight [and Thomas Wright]. Invaluable to all students.
The Golden Bough, by J.G. Frazer. The textbook of Folk Lore. Invaluable to all students.
The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine. Excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition.
Rivers of Life, by General Forlong. An invaluable textbook of old systems of initiation.
Three Dialogues, by Bishop Berkeley. The Classic of Subjective Idealism.
Essays of David Hume. The Classic of Academic Scepticism.
First Principles by Herbert Spencer. The Classic of Agnosticism.
Prolegomena [to any future Metaphysics], by Immanuel Kant. The best introduction to Metaphysics.
The Canon [by William Stirling]. The best textbook of Applied Qabalah.
The Fourth Dimension, by [Charles] H. Hinton. The best essay on the subject.
The Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley. Masterpieces of philosophy, as of prose.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Appendix I: Literature Recommended to Aspirants#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Only man makes Karma. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 2:Charity never faileth. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 3:Everybody is changing. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 4:Have faith. We will do ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 5:Cowardice is no virtue. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 6:Everything has a cause. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 7:Charity opens the heart. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 8:We are all born cowards. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 9:Religion is not in fault. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 10:We are the living devils. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 11:Have faith in your destiny ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 12:Bullies are always cowards. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 13:Motion is the sign of life. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 14:All change is in the screen. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 15:Change is always subjective. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 16:Man is not mind, he is soul. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 17:Renunciation is of the mind. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 18:The body cannot be the soul. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 19:Man is greater than the gods. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 20:Renunciation is in our blood. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 21:As thou thinkest, so art thou. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 22:Holiness sincerity, and faith. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 23:Perfection is always infinite. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 24:The earth is enjoyed by heroes ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 25:The ignorant man never enjoys. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 26:The sign of death is weakness. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 27:The Yogi must always practice. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 28:This world is not for cowards. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 29:All real progress must be slow. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 30:Say it with pride we are Hindus ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 31:The Absolute cannot be divided. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 32:True progress is slow but sure. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 33:We must get out of materialism. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 34:We shall progress inch by inch. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 35:Each soul is potentially divine. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 36:No freedom without renunciation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 37:Service to man is service to god ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 38:The body and mind are dependent. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 39:There is no end to renunciation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 40:A changeable God would be no God. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 41:Change is inherent in every form. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 42:Do not run away, it is cowardice. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 43:God is pure, and the same to all. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 44:No effect of work can be eternal. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 45:The real work is in the practice. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 46:Change can only be in the limited. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 47:He who conquers self conquers all. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 48:March on, the Lord is our General. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 49:Perfection can be had by everybody. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 50:Practice makes us what we shall be. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 51:The best guide in life is strength. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 52:All is bound by the law of causation ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 53:Move onward and carry into practice. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 54:Out of Mahat comes universal egoism. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 55:Strength is life, Weakness is death. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 56:The moment you fear, you are nobody. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 57:This rascal ego must be obliterated. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 58:All law has its essence in causation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 59:Every change is being forced upon us. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 60:It is the want that creates the body. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 61:Man is a degeneration of what he was. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 62:The Absolute can never be thought of. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 63:The coward is an object to be pitied. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 64:The perfect man sees nothing but God. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 65:They alone live, who live for others. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 66:We are what our thoughts have made us ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 67:We must patiently practice every day. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 68:Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 69:Whatever you think, that you will be. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 70:You gain nothing by becoming cowards. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 71:A point of rest alone explains motion. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 72:Business is business, no child's play. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 73:Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 74:Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 75:Infinite strength is religion and God. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 76:Superhuman power is not strong enough. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 77:There is salvation only for the brave. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 78:We have to practice to become perfect. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 79:As the cause is, so the effect will be. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 80:Experience is the only teacher we have. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 81:Give everything and look for no return. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 82:Hinduism is the mother of all religions ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 83:Hindus believe Buddha to be an Avatara. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 84:It is faith that makes a lion of a man. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 85:Man is the nearest approach to Brahman. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 86:The idol is the expression of religion. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 87:The real man is the one Unit Existence. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 88:The road to salvation is through truth. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 89:They aimless halt, who halt for others. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 90:You are the creator of your own destiny ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 91:All power is His and within His command. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 92:Body is the name of a series of changes. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 93:Music alone can take you to the Highest! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 94:Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 95:... oneness is the secret to everything. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 96:Religion in India culminates in freedom. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 97:Spirituality is the science of the Soul. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 98:The sign of life is strength and growth. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 99:What is this universe but name and form? ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 100:Above all, India is the land of religion. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 101:All misery and pain come from attachment. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 102:All progression is in the relative world. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 103:Differentiation is in name and form only. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 104:Om is the greatest, meaning the Absolute. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 105:Perfection can never be attained by work. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 106:The law of Karma is the law of causation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 107:This is the great fact: strength is life. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 108:Alcohol is not the answer to all questions ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 109:If superstition enters, the brain is gone. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 110:Meditate upon the Om that is in the heart. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 111:Poetry and philosophy will become friends. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 112:The greatest sin is to think yourself weak ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 113:There is no virtue higher than non-injury. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 114:The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 115:The whole point is to discipline the mind. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 116:To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 117:Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 118:Brave, bold people, these are what we want. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 119:Every step I take in light is mine forever. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 120:Man is the greatest being that ever can be. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 121:The Absolute does not change, or re-evolve. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 122:The power of purity-it is a definite power. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 123:Is God to blame for what I myself have done? ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 124:Life in this world is an attempt to see God. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 125:Make no conditions and none will be imposed. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 126:There cannot be friendship without equality. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 127:There is no other teacher but your own soul. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 128:Change is the nature of all objective things. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 129:Let the end and the means be joined into one. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 130:The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 131:Thoughts are living things - they travel far. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 132:Unity in variety is the plan of the universe. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 133:You yourselves are the Being you are seeking. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 134:Everything is ended if you forgive and forget. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 135:It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 136:Let us blame none, let us blame our own Karma. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 137:Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 138:There is no end to the power a man can obtain. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 139:This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 140:What power is higher than the power of purity? ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 141:Attachment comes only where we expect a return. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 142:In one word, this ideal is that you are divine. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 143:It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 144:Man cannot live upon words, however he may try. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 145:Marriage is an institution very safely guarded. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 146:Science and religion will meet and shake hands. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 147:Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 148:All the powers in the universe are already ours. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 149:As you are, you see everything else. ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove 150:Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 151:Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 152:Matter is motion outside, mind is motion inside. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 153:Not one is constant, but everything is changing. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 154:One link in a chain explains the infinite chain. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 155:We know there is no progress in a straight line. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 156:Who shall make me perfect? I am perfect already. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 157:You must all pay attention to your health first. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 158:Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 159:Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 160:Not one atom can rest until it finds its freedom. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 161:Salvation never will come through hope of reward. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 162:The Absolute is the material of both God and man. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 163:The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 164:There is nothing so high as renunciation of self. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 165:The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 166:And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 167:Every time you meditate you will keep your growth. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 168:In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 169:It is a constant change. Not one body is constant. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 170:Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 171:Marriage and sex and money the only living devils. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 172:My bones are destined to make corals in the Ganga. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 173:Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 174:No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 175:Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 176:Out of purity and silence comes the word of power. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 177:The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 178:The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 179:Thirst after body is the great bane of human life. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 180:Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 181:To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 182:Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 183:Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 184:Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 185:External nature is only internal nature writ large. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 186:In the world take always the position of the giver. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 187:Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 188:Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 189:No two persons have the same mind or the same body. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 190:The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 191:What we want is progress, development, realisation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 192:Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 193:Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 194:Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 195:Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 196:Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 197:Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 198:Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 199:Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 200:The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 201:The world sympathizes only with strong and powerful. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 202:Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 203:Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 204:Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 205:Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 206:Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 207:He who struggles is better than he who never attempts ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 208:If I am immune against all anger, I never feel angry. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 209:If one has got power, one must manifest it in action. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 210:Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 211:It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 212:Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 213:Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 214:The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 215:The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 216:The soul has neither sex, nor caste nor imperfection. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 217:Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 218:We never change, we never die, and we are never born. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 219:A form comes out of a combination of force and matter. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 220:Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 221:None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 222:One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 223:We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 224:Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 225:Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 226:See Christ, then you are a Christian; all else is talk. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 227:The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 228:The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 229:Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 230:Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 231:Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 232:Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 233:If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 234:In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 235:Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. . ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 236:Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 237:Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 238:Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 239:The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 240:To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 241:You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 242:Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 243:Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 244:The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 245:Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 246:Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 247:The only test of goods things is that they make us strong. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 248:The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 249:Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 250:For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 251:He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 252:Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 253:Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 254:Love for yourselves means [in the end] love for everything. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 255:One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 256:Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 257:The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 258:The purification of the mind is very necessary. ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove 259:The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 260:You know the disease, you know the remedy, only have faith. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 261:All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 262:Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 263:Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 264:Even the least work done for others awakens the power within. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 265:It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 266:Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 267:Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 268:Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 269:Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 270:The development of man is a return to an original perfection. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 271:The world cares little for principles. They care for persons. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 272:Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 273:Doing good to others is the 274:Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 275:May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 276:Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 277:The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 278:The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 279:We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 280:When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 281:Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 282:Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 283:Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 284:Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 285:He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 286:He who wants to become a Bhakta must be strong, must be healthy. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 287:Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 288:Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 289:Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 290:Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 291:External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 292:I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 293:In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 294:Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 295:Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 296:The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 297:Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 298:If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 299:In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 300:Never lose faith in yourself; you can do anything in the universe. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 301:No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 302:Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 303:This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 304:When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 305:All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 306:As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 307:Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove 308:Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 309:Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 310:Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 311:The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 312:The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind. ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove 313:The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 314:There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 315:To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 316:. . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . . ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 317:We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 318:Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 319:Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 320:Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 321:May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 322:Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 323:This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 324:You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 325:Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 326:Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 327:Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 328:I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it? ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 329:If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 330:It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 331:Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 332:No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 333:The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 334:We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 335:Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 336:While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 337:Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 338:Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 339:First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 340:First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 341:On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 342:Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 343:That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 344:The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 345:The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 346:The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 347:To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 348:Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 349:External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 350:It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 351:Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 352:Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 353:That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 354:There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 355:They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 356:When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 357:High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 358:I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 359:Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 360:The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 361:The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 362:What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 363:BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 364:Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 365:Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 366:I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 367:My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 368:Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 369:Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 370:There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 371:The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 372:To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 373:Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 374:Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 375:Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 376:Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 377:Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 378:Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 379:Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is "righteous". ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 380:Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 381:The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 382:The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 383:The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 384:This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 385:Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 386:You will be nearer to Heaven through foot ball than through study of Gita. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 387:All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form". ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 388:All motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 389:Do not say, ‘You are bad’; say only, ‘You are good’, but be better! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 390:Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 391:Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 392:Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 393:Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 394:Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 395:Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 396:The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 397:The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 398:Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 399:When I asked God for Brains and Brawn, He gave me Puzzles in life to Solve. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 400:Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes. ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove 401:Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 402:Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 403:Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 404:Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 405:The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 406:There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 407:Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 408:Expansion is life. Love is expansion. Love is therefore the only law of life. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 409:Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 410:May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 411:Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 412:Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 413:The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 414:Your way is the best for you, but that is no sign it is the best for another. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 415:A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 416:If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 417:Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 418:The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 419:To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 420:When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 421:You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . . ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 422:Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 423:If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 424:I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 425:It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 426:It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 427:No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . . ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 428:The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 429:The world has seen thousands of prophets, and the world has yet to see millions ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 430:Through the grace of the Almighty Power, it is sure to manifest itself in time. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 431:To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 432:Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 433:We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 434:All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 435:Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 436:Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 437:So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 438:The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 439:There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 440:The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 441:The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 442:Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 443:Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas? ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 444:Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 445:He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 446:Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 447:Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 448:The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 449:We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 450:You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 451:All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 452:Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 453:Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 454:Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 455:Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another." ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 456:So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 457:There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 458:The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 459:Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men? ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 460:We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 461:According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 462:Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 463:How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 464:Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 465:Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 466:Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 467:Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 468:The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 469:We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 470:YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 471:Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 472:Do not disturb the faith of any. . . Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 473:Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 474:Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 475:Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 476:The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 477:The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 478:The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 479:We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 480:What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 481:When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 482:Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others. ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove 483:All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 484:First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 485:Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 486:Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 487:Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 488:Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 489:It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 490:It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 491:..just do, leave it there, if it comes let it come, but don't look for it. ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove 492:Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 493:The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 494:The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 495:We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 496:Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 497:Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 498:Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 499:I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 500:My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
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3:Serve man Serve god ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
4:Only man makes Karma. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
5:Unselfishness is God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
6:Charity never faileth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
7:Everybody is changing. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
8:Have faith. We will do ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
9:Your country requires ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
10:Cowardice is no virtue. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
11:Everything has a cause. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
12:Charity opens the heart. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
13:Life is itself religion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
14:One truth, many paths. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
15:sarvāvaraṇamalāpetasya ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
16:We are all born cowards. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
17:Religion is not in fault. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
18:We are the living devils. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
19:You cannot die nor can I. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
20:Have faith in your destiny ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
21:Bullies are always cowards. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
22:It is daylight for him. ... ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
23:Motion is the sign of life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
24:We see the world as we are. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
25:All change is in the screen. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
26:Change is always subjective. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
27:Heroes only enjoy the world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
28:Man is not mind, he is soul. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
29:Renunciation is of the mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
30:The body cannot be the soul. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
31:Works (Golden Deer Classics) ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
32:Man is greater than the gods. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
33:PURPORT This ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
34:Renunciation is in our blood. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
35:Stand up, be bold, be strong. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
36:1/ The brave are always moral. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
37:As thou thinkest, so art thou. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
38:Holiness sincerity, and faith. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
39:Perfection is always infinite. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
40:struggle is the life of sucess ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
41:The earth is enjoyed by heroes ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
42:The ignorant man never enjoys. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
43:The sign of death is weakness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
44:The Yogi must always practice. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
45:This world is not for cowards. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
46:All real progress must be slow. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
47:It is our desire that binds us. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
48:One must know one's own secret. ~ Swami Nithyananda, #NFDB
49:puts the cart before the horse. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
50:Say it with pride we are Hindus ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
51:The Absolute cannot be divided. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
52:the doctrine of non-attachment. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
53:True progress is slow but sure. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
54:We must get out of materialism. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
55:We shall progress inch by inch. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
56:Each nation has an identity and ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
57:Each soul is potentially divine. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
58:No freedom without renunciation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
59:Service to man is service to god ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
60:The body and mind are dependent. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
61:There is no end to renunciation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
62:A changeable God would be no God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
63:Change is inherent in every form. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
64:Do not run away, it is cowardice. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
65:Every pain has a gain behind it ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
66:Food should be a love offering. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
67:Freedom is to lose all illusions. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
68:God is pure, and the same to all. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
69:He has seen the glory of the Self ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
70:Knowing this, stand up and fight! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
71:No effect of work can be eternal. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
72:Talent’ is an anagram for ‘latent’ though. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
73:The real work is in the practice. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
74:Change can only be in the limited. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
75:Condemnation accomplishes nothing. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
76:He who conquers self conquers all. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
77:March on, the Lord is our General. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
78:inequality without implicating God? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
79:Perfection can be had by everybody. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
80:Practice makes us what we shall be. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
81:strength is life,weakness is death. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
82:The best guide in life is strength. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
83:Who will be the happiest person? ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
84:All is bound by the law of causation ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
85:Begging is not the language of love. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
86:Knowledge alone can make us perfect. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
87:Move onward and carry into practice. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
88:Out of Mahat comes universal egoism. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
89:Strength is Life, Weakness is death. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
90:Strength is life, Weakness is death. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
91:The moment you fear, you are nobody. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
92:This rascal ego must be obliterated. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
93:All law has its essence in causation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
94:Every change is being forced upon us. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
95:It is the want that creates the body. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
96:Man is a degeneration of what he was. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
97:Strength is Life, Weakness is Death". ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
98:The Absolute can never be thought of. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
99:The coward is an object to be pitied. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
100:The perfect man sees nothing but God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
101:They alone live, who live for others. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
102:We are what our thoughts have made us ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
103:We must patiently practice every day. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
104:Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
105:Whatever you think, that you will be. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
106:You gain nothing by becoming cowards. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
107:A point of rest alone explains motion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
108:As you are, you see everything else. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
109:Business is business, no child's play. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
110:Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
111:Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
112:Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
113:Infinite strength is religion and God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
114:Neither seek nor avoid,take what comes ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
115:Strength is goodness, weakness is sin. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
116:Superhuman power is not strong enough. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
117:There is salvation only for the brave. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
118:We have to practice to become perfect. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
119:Where there is faith, fear cannot exist. ~ Radhanath Swami, #NFDB
120:As the cause is, so the effect will be. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
121:Be a hero and always say I have no fear ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
122:Do not fall in love, but rise in love ~ Swami Parthasarathy, #NFDB
123:Even the faults of a Guru must be told. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
124:Every great achievement is done slowly. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
125:Experience is the only teacher we have. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
126:Give everything and look for no return. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
127:Hinduism is the mother of all religions ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
128:Hindus believe Buddha to be an Avatara. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
129:If we are pure, we cannot see impurity. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
130:It is faith that makes a lion of a man. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
131:Man is the nearest approach to Brahman. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
132:...oneness is the secret to everything. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
133:Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
134:Strength is Life,
Weakness is Death. ~ Swami Vivekananda,#NFDB
135:The idol is the expression of religion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
136:The real man is the one Unit Existence. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
137:The road to salvation is through truth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
138:They aimless halt, who halt for others. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
139:You are the creator of your own destiny ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
140:All power is His and within His command. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
141:Body is the name of a series of changes. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
142:Free thyself from the mighty attraction- ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
143:Music alone can take you to the Highest! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
144:Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
145:Religion in India culminates in freedom. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
146:Spirituality is the science of the Soul. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
147:There is only one sin. That is weakness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
148:The sign of life is strength and growth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
149:Truth requires no prop to make it stand. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
150:What is this universe but name and form? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
151:Above all, India is the land of religion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
152:All misery and pain come from attachment. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
153:All progression is in the relative world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
154:All weakness, all bondage is imagination. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
155:Differentiation is in name and form only. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
156:Liberty is the first condition of growth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
157:Om is the greatest, meaning the Absolute. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
158:Perfection can never be attained by work. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
159:sentimentalism, nor anything that belongs ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
160:The law of Karma is the law of causation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
161:This is the great fact: strength is life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
162:We must always remember that God is Love. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
163:Alcohol is not the answer to all questions ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
164:He jests at scars that never felt a wound. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
165:If superstition enters, the brain is gone. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
166:If the poor boy cannot come to education, ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
167:Meditate upon the Om that is in the heart. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
168:Poetry and philosophy will become friends. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
169:Success is achieving what one really wants. ~ Swami Kriyananda, #NFDB
170:The greatest sin is to think yourself weak ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
171:There is no virtue higher than non-injury. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
172:The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
173:The whole point is to discipline the mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
174:The world is nothing but a school of love; ~ Swami Muktananda, #NFDB
175:To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
176:3/ None but the bravest deserves salvation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
177:Awake! Stand up and fight! Die if you must. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
178:Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
179:Brave, bold people, these are what we want. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
180:Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
181:Every step I take in light is mine forever. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
182:He (God) reveals himself to the pure heart. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
183:Man is the greatest being that ever can be. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
184:The Absolute does not change, or re-evolve. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
185:The power of purity-it is a definite power. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
186:To be brave is to have faith in the Mother. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
187:2/ The brave alone can afford to be sincere. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
188:All knowledge depends upon calmness of mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
189:Give up the drop and gain the whole ocean. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
190:Is God to blame for what I myself have done? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
191:Life in this world is an attempt to see God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
192:Make no conditions and none will be imposed. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
193:There cannot be friendship without equality. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
194:There is no other teacher but your own soul. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
195:Whatever you do, put your inner work first. ~ Swami Chetanananda, #NFDB
196:be otherwise? One must first know how to work ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
197:Change is the nature of all objective things. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
198:Freedom of the soul is the goal of all Yogas. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
199:Let the end and the means be joined into one. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
200:Man is miserable this moment, happy the next. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
201:Non-attachment is the basis of all the Yogas. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
202:take Buddha. The central idea [is] sacrifice. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
203:That must have been the character of the man. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
204:The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
205:The ideal of man is to see God in everything. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
206:There was never a time when we did not exist. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
207:Thoughts are living things - they travel far. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
208:Unity in variety is the plan of the universe. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
209:You yourselves are the Being you are seeking. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
210:Everything is ended if you forgive and forget. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
211:It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
212:Let us blame none, let us blame our own Karma. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
213:Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
214:No one has ever learned anything by giving up. Continue ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
215:nor freedom, nor gods, nor work, nor anything. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
216:Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
~ Swami Sivananda,#NFDB
217:There is no end to the power a man can obtain. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
218:This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
219:What power is higher than the power of purity? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
220:Attachment comes only where we expect a return. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
221:In one word, this ideal is that you are divine. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
222:It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
223:Man cannot live upon words, however he may try. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
224:Marriage is an institution very safely guarded. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
225:misery is caused by ignorance and nothing else. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
226:Science and religion will meet and shake hands. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
227:Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
228:Swami Vivekananda LECTURES ON THE BHAGAVAD GITA ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
229:To kill nothing, that is love. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
230:We all have the right to ask for Grace
~ Swami Vivekananda, [T6],#NFDB
231:Work on, be lions; and the Lord will bless you. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
232:All the powers in the universe are already ours. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
233:and was put out of countenance. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
234:Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
235:Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
236:Flying from work is never the way to find peace. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
237:flying from work is never the way to find peace. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
238:If you say you are bound, bound you will remain. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
239:Let your heart be as big as it can possibly be. ~ Swami Chetanananda, #NFDB
240:Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
241:Matter is motion outside, mind is motion inside. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
242:Not one is constant, but everything is changing. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
243:One link in a chain explains the infinite chain. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
244:One who loves his own Self loves the whole world. ~ Swami Muktananda, #NFDB
245:That man is not humble or loving who is jealous. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
246:We know there is no progress in a straight line. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
247:Where there is no inner freedom, there is no life. ~ Radhanath Swami, #NFDB
248:Where the whole world is awake, the sage sleeps. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
249:Who shall make me perfect? I am perfect already. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
250:You must all pay attention to your health first. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
251:Your body is of no more value than that of John. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
252:A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
253:Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
254:Krishna preached in the midst of the battlefield. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
255:Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
256:Nothing can shake him, no temptation or anything. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
257:Not one atom can rest until it finds its freedom. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
258:Salvation never will come through hope of reward. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
259:The Absolute is the material of both God and man. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
260:The brave alone do great things, not the cowards. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
261:The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
262:There is nothing so high as renunciation of self. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
263:The road to gooď is the roughest and steepest in ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
264:The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
265:And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
266:Arjuna asks: “Who is a person of established will? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
267:but what they do without knowing it, do knowingly. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
268:Every time you meditate you will keep your growth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
269:If you believe in a God, you can see Him even now. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
270:I have one word for all aspirants 'Meditate'.
~ Sri Swami Sivananda,#NFDB
271:In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
272:It is a constant change. Not one body is constant. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
273:Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
274:Marriage and sex and money the only living devils. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
275:Misery comes through attachment, not through work. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
276:My bones are destined to make corals in the Ganga. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
277:Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
278:No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
279:Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
280:Out of purity and silence comes the word of power. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
281:Pure love must be selfless, without selfish motives. ~ Radhanath Swami, #NFDB
282:The Atman, Self, is the same as Brahman, the Lord. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
283:The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
284:The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
285:the midst of intense activity finds himself in the ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
286:Then he sees that this attachment is all delusion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
287:Then you will become a man of firm will (note 19). ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
288:There is no merit in the renunciation of a beggar. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
289:Thirst after body is the great bane of human life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
290:Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
291:To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
292:Where motion ceases," the Master said, "God begins. ~ Swami Kriyananda, #NFDB
293:Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
294:Arise, Awake and Stop not till the Goal is Reached. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
295:Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
296:Continual attention to one object is contemplation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
297:Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
298:Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
299:Do not look back upon what has been done. Go ahead! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
300:External nature is only internal nature writ large. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
301:In the world take always the position of the giver. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
302:Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
303:Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
304:No two persons have the same mind or the same body. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
305:Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple. ~ Swami Muktananda, #NFDB
306:stand up, be bold. you are the sole and only cause. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
307:The purer the mind, the easier it is to control it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
308:There will never be a time when we shall not exist. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
309:The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
310:The Vedanta says, there is nothing that is not God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
311:To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
312:What we want is progress, development, realisation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
313:Where there is purpose, there is happiness as well. ~ Swami Abhedananda, #NFDB
314:Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
315:4/ The brave alone do great things, not the cowards. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
316:all misery comes from fear, from unsatisfied desire. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
317:Arise,awake and donot stop until the goal is reached ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
318:Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
319:Everything is infectious in this world, good or bad. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
320:God is love, and love is God. And God is everywhere. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
321:However you try to define meditation, it’s not that. ~ Swami Brahmananda, #NFDB
322:Knowledge itself is the highest reward of knowledge. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
323:Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
324:Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
325:Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
326:Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
327:Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
328:Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
329:stories in this book represent only the tip of the iceberg. ~ Swami Rama, #NFDB
330:the man who is pure, and who dares, does all things. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
331:The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
332:The world sympathizes only with strong and powerful. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
333:Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
334:Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
335:Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
336:Blows are what awaken us and help to break the dream. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
337:Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
338:Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
339:He does not need anything. He does not want anything. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
340:He who struggles is better than he who never attempts ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
341:If I am immune against all anger, I never feel angry. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
342:If one has got power, one must manifest it in action. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
343:if you want to help others, your little self must go. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
344:Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
345:It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
346:Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
347:mean I had to drink hurriedly. Bubbles of ambition and desire, ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
348:Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
349:that those who have nothing are taken care of by the Divine. ~ Swami Rama, #NFDB
350:The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
351:The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
352:The soul has neither sex, nor caste nor imperfection. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
353:Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
354:We never change, we never die, and we are never born. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
355:A form comes out of a combination of force and matter. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
356:beleive in yourself and the world will be at your feet ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
357:Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
358:Chanting opens the heart and makes love flow within us. ~ Swami Muktananda, #NFDB
359:He who struggles is better than he who never attempts. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
360:hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
361:None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
362:One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
363:The game of life has one rule: if you play, you lose. ~ Swami Chetanananda, #NFDB
364:The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72) ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
365:We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
366:A thousand years a city, and a thousand years a forest. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
367:Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
368:Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
369:Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
370:For all of us in this world life is a continuous fight. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
371:It is only those who persevere to the end that succeed. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
372:it is only those who persevere to the end that succeed. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
373:See Christ, then you are a Christian; all else is talk. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
374:The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
375:The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
376:The person who aspires to be a Bhakta must be cheerful. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
377:The rose called by any other name would smell as sweet. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
378:Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
379:When there is love in our heart, only love will come out. ~ Radhanath Swami, #NFDB
380:Work Purifies the heart and so leads to Vidya (wisdom). ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
381:Yoga es auto-dominio de las modificaciones mentales”. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
382:All of us are waves on the ocean of divine consciousness. ~ Swami Kriyananda, #NFDB
383:Arise awake and do not stop until you achieve your Goal. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
384:As such he cannot experience the nature of the soul. ... ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
385:Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
386:Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
387:Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
388:Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
389:If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
390:In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
391:Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. . ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
392:Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
393:Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
394:Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
395:The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
396:To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
397:Work in a way that you look forward to Monday mornings ~ Swami Parthasarathy, #NFDB
398:You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
399:Your enlightenment is more powerful than your ignorance. ~ Swami Nithyananda, #NFDB
400:Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
401:Concentration of the mind is the source of all knowledge. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
402:give a mental assent to the customs of their forefathers, ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
403:Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
404:Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
405:The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
406:The great quality of Bhakti is that it cleanses the mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
407:The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
408:Work incessantly, but give up all attachment to work." Do ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
409:You can not believe in god until you believe in yourself. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
410:Don’t do anything more for your body than you do for John. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
411:Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
412:Imbalanced kapha can lead one into a prolonged state of depression. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
413:Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
414:Such a man is the same whether his work succeeds or fails. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
415:The more we are able to let go, the more we are able to accomplish. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
416:The only test of goods things is that they make us strong. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
417:The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
418:Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
419:A Yogi must avoid the two extremes of luxury and austerity. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
420:Do not get so busy living that you give yourself no time to breathe. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
421:For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
422:God Himself is the highest goal of man; see Him, enjoy Him. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
423:He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
424:Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
425:Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
426:Life does not need to be changed. Only your intent and actions do. ~ Rama Swami, #NFDB
427:Love for yourselves means [in the end] love for everything. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
428:One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
429:Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
430:The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
431:The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
432:You know the disease, you know the remedy, only have faith. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
433:All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
434:All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
435:Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
436:He is trying to justify himself, but he cannot fool Krishna. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
437:He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
438:Our words have not the power of the words that become Vedas. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
439:Pray for knowledge and light, every other prayer is selfish. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
440:Religion means to know God and to love Him. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
441:Success by design is infinitely better than a win by chance.’ Success ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
442:Surrender is the ultimate technique to merge with existence. ~ Swami Nithyananda, #NFDB
443:Truth cannot be partial; it is for the good of all. Finally, ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
444:Vedanta does not say, ‘Give it up’: it says, ‘Transcend it’. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
445:You find in Krishna that non-attachment is the central idea. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
446:A restless mind can’t drop a thought; only a stable and calm mind can. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
447:Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
448:Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
449:But where the ignorant are asleep, there the sage keeps awake ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
450:Doing good to others is the # one great Universal Religion ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
451:Even the least work done for others awakens the power within. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
452:Hatred is a thing which greatly impedes the course of Bhakti. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
453:He who desires God will get Love, unto him God gives Himself. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
454:It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
455:It’s not that I’m smarter, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
456:Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
457:Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
458:Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
459:Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
460:The development of man is a return to an original perfection. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
461:The [original] scriptures of the Hindus are called the Vedas. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
462:There is a glory in happiness, there is a glory in suffering. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
463:The world cares little for principles. They care for persons. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
464:Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
465:You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
466:All our actions in this world will determine our future birth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
467:By all means make a start — even if it’s for the wrong reason. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
468:Keep your thoughts on virtue; what we think we tend to become. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
469:The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy. ~ Swami Prabhavananda, #NFDB
470:The world is neither good nor bad; the world is the world. The ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
471:Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
472:God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted
He Gave Me Everything I Needed. ~ Swami Vivekananda,#NFDB
473:infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
474:May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
475:Realization is real religion, all the rest is only preparation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
476:Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
477:stick to truth and we shall succeed, may be slowly, but surely. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
478:Take risks in life, if u win u can lead, if u loose u can guide ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
479:The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
480:The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
481:The more you work to help others, the more you help yourselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
482:Until the inner teacher opens, all outside teaching is in vain. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
483:We are a part of nature. Our nature is an extract of nature itself. This ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
484:We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
485:We must be Bright and Cheerful, long faces do not make Religion ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
486:When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
487:When he has become perfectly satisfied, he has no more cravings ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
488:Who can work without any attachment? That is the real question. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
489:Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
490:Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
491:Be that which you really are; don’t pretend to be what you are not.” He ~ Swami Rama, #NFDB
492:Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
493:Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
494:Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
495:Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
496:Faith is unflinching trust in something divine. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
497:He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
498:He who wants to become a Bhakta must be strong, must be healthy. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
499:Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
500:Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
501:Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
502:Our Karma determines what we deserve and what we can assimilate. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
503:Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
504:The need to cling to someone or crave for their time starts to disappear. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
505:They become what they think. We will become [only] by [degrees]. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
506:You always see the world, the way you are, not the way world is. ~ Swami Nithyananda, #NFDB
507:Before we can believe in God, we must first believe in ourselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
508:Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
509:Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
510:Depression is not absence of happiness. It is absence of life and of will. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
511:Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
512:External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
513:I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
514:In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
515:Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
516:Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
517:The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
518:When you speak about matters of concern or pain, their imprint softens. No ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
519:Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind. ~ Swami Muktananda, #NFDB
520:Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
521:In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
522:In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
523:It's not the world that distresses you but how you relate to it. ~ Swami Parthasarathy, #NFDB
524:Never lose faith in yourself; you can do anything in the universe. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
525:No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
526:Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
527:The kingdom of consciousness is under siege by the desires of our mind. All ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
528:This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
529:Throughout the world, people look at life through different windows. ~ Radhanath Swami, #NFDB
530:When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
531:When the mind becomes quiet, you feel nourished. SWAMI CHIDVILASANANDA ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
532:All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
533:As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
534:Ayurveda, acidic foods are called amla and alkaline foods are called kshara. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
535:Do not say, ‘You are bad’; say only, ‘You are good’, but be better! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
536:Gratitude is the greatest prayer. Thank you is the greatest mantra. ~ Swami Nithyananda, #NFDB
537:He is Jivanmukta who can live in this world without being attached. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
538:If a person who can [give a blow] forbears, there is merit in that. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
539:If one intends to really find truth, one must not cling to comfort. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
540:I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
541:Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
542:Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
543:Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
544:The choices that we make in our life are the choices that make us. ~ Swami Chetanananda, #NFDB
545:The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
546:The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
547:There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
548:To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
549:Try to expand. Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
550:. . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . . ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
551:We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
552:We should give more and more and more chances for people to grow. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
553:Behind every creature is the ‘Mother’, pure, lovely, never changing. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
554:Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
555:Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
556:Imagination is the door to inspiration and the basis of all thought. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
557:Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
558:May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
559:My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent, ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
560:Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
561:The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
562:This is the gist of all worship—to be pure and to do good to others. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
563:This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
564:Truth itself is always simple. Complexity is due to man's ignorance. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
565:When we start to tame the body and its needs, taming the mind becomes easier. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
566:You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
567:Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
568:Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
569:Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
570:I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
571:If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
572:In Jnana we have to lose sight of the variety and see only the Unity. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
573:It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
574:Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
575:My motto is to learn whatever good things I may come across anywhere. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
576:No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
577:Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
578:The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
579:The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
580:Thus he goes beyond the pain of birth and death. Thus he becomes free ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
581:We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
582:Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
583:While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
584:Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
585:Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
586:First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
587:First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
588:On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
589:Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
590:Perfect love, the heart never reacting, this is what builds character. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
591:Selfishness is either self-centered or self-extended. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
592:That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
593:The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
594:The basis of all remedies and treatments in Ayurveda is your constitution. Once ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
595:The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
596:The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. ~ Swami Prabhavananda, #NFDB
597:The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
598:To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
599:Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
600:Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses. ~ Swami Parthasarathy, #NFDB
601:Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
602:External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
603:It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
604:Learn to live harmoniously. That is where the real joy and peace lie. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
605:Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
606:Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
607:That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
608:The causes being known, the knowledge of the effects is sure to follow. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
609:The concentrated mind is a lamp that shows us every corner of the soul. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
610:There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
611:The yogis figured a calm mind was infinitely more powerful than a restless mind. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
612:They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
613:When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
614:Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. Why ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
615:find that even this idea of duty undergoes change, and that the greatest ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
616:High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
617:I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
618:Jealousy is the root of all evil, and a most difficult thing to conquer. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
619:Pray, ‘Take us by the hand as a father takes his son, and leave us not.’ ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
620:Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
621:The dedicated ever enjoy Supreme Peace. Therefore, live only to serve. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
622:the easiest way to make ourselves happy is to see that others are happy. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
623:The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
624:The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it. ~ Swami Brahmananda, #NFDB
625:The standard of success is whether you've pleased God. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
626:The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
627:The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
628:What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
629:always keep your mind joyful; if melancholy thoughts come, kick them out. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
630:BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
631:Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
632:Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
633:God knows your breaking point. You simply don’t know your own strength. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
634:I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
635:If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
636:It is all ‘here’. To live and move in god — even here, even in this body! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
637:It's better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
638:Karma means law, and it applies everywhere. Everything is bound by Karma. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
639:My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
640:Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
641:religion is no matter of books and beliefs, but of spiritual realisation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
642:Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
643:The real spiritual man is broad everywhere. His love forces him to be so. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
644:There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
645:The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
646:To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
647:Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
648:Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
649:Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
650:Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
651:first build up your physique. then only you can get control over the mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
652:Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
653:Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
654:In hurting anyone, you hurt yourself, in loving anyone, you love yourself. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
655:Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
656:Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is "righteous". ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
657:Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
658:The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
659:The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
660:The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
661:The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
662:This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
663:Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
664:You will be nearer to Heaven through foot ball than through study of Gita. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
665:All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form". ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
666:All motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
667:Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
668:Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
669:have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
670:Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
671:Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
672:Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. ~ Rama Swami, #NFDB
673:Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
674:Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
675:The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
676:The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
677:The great men think, and you and I [also] think. But there is a difference. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
678:Then the gods become no gods; death becomes no death; life becomes no life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
679:Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
680:When I asked God for Brains and Brawn, He gave me Puzzles in life to Solve. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
681:Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility. ~ Swami Nithyananda, #NFDB
682:Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
683:Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
684:He works for work’s sake. “Work for work’s sake. Worship for worship’s sake. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
685:In the ocean we cannot raise a wave without causing a hollow somewhere else. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
686:..just do, leave it there, if it comes let it come, but don't look for it. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
687:Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
688:Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
689:Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West. ~ Huston Smith, #NFDB
690:the appearances of happiness or unhappiness of the soul are but reflections. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
691:The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
692:There is a conflict in Arjuna’s heart between his emotionalism and his duty. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
693:There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
694:Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
695:We started out fine. Then we got de-fined.
Now we are getting re-fined. ~ Swami Satchidananda,#NFDB
696:Bhakti-Yoga does not say, ‘Give up’; it only says, ‘Love, love the Highest !’ ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
697:Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
698:Expansion is life. Love is expansion. Love is therefore the only law of life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
699:Fear comes from the selfish idea of cutting one's self off from the Universe. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
700:Happiness and misery are only in the senses, they cannot touch our real Self. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
701:In fact he was the most elevated transcendental personality. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
702:Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
703:May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
704:Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
705:Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
706:The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
707:Those who want to enjoy the fruits of their work are misers. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
708:True love knows no bargains. It is one-way traffic: giving, giving, giving. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
709:We were fine originally and lost that fine-ness. That's when we became defined. ~ Radhanath Swami, #NFDB
710:Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
711:You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness. ~ Swami Muktananda, #NFDB
712:Your way is the best for you, but that is no sign it is the best for another. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
713:A guru trains his disciples to become Krishna dasa, a menial servant of Krishna. ~ Lokanatha Swami, #NFDB
714:A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
715:Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.” ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
716:Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
717:If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
718:It is impossible to find God outside of ourselves. We are the greatest temple. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
719:Only what is done as duty for duty’s sake ... can scatter the bondage of Karma ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
720:Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
721:The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
722:The supreme bliss that pulsates in the wake of meditation is your pure essence. ~ Swami Muktananda, #NFDB
723:The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in everyone of us. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
724:The Yogi believes in psychic control and the conquest of internal nature. “How ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
725:To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
726:When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
727:You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . . ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
728:Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
729:Humility does not mean to think yourself less, but to less think of yourself. ~ Bhakti Tirtha Swami, #NFDB
730:If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
731:I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
732:It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
733:It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
734:No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . . ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
735:The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
736:The world has seen thousands of prophets, and the world has yet to see millions ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
737:Through the grace of the Almighty Power, it is sure to manifest itself in time. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
738:To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
739:To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
740:Uniformity is the rigorous law of nature; what once happened can happen always. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
741:Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
742:We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
743:Aba rahima mushkil pari, garhe dou kama, Sanche se to jag nahin, jhuthe mile na ram. “Oh, ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
744:All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
745:Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.' ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
746:Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
747:Don't Feel Yourself To Be Alone Because GOD is always with you. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
748:Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
749:Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
750:So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
751:Stand alone! See the glory of your own soul, and see that you will have to work. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
752:The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
753:The calmer we are, the better for us, and the more the amount of work we can do. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
754:The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
755:The law of life is to leave behind the ground one is standing on and then step forward. ~ Rama Swami, #NFDB
756:There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
757:The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
758:The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
759:The world has seen thousands of prophets, and the world has yet to see millions ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
760:To love anyone personally is bondage. Love all alike, then all desires fall off. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
761:When you feel heaviness in the body or mind, almost certainly it means kapha is vitiated. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
762:Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
763:Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
764:Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
765:Each is great in his own place, but the duty of one is not the duty of the other. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
766:Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
767:He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
768:how beautifully he unveiled the spiritual mysteries while skillfully hiding his identity ~ Swami Rama, #NFDB
769:If you really want to examine your strength, see how many times a day you are disturbed. ~ Rama Swami, #NFDB
770:Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
771:Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one’s own. ~ Swami Kriyananda, #NFDB
772:Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
773:Spiritual ignorance is the greatest sin. It is what makes all other sins possible. ~ Swami Kriyananda, #NFDB
774:The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
775:The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
776:There is no knowledge without experience, and man has to see God in his own soul. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
777:This animal called man has some religious influence, but he is guided by economy. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
778:This is the sage who always works for work’s sake without caring for the results. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
779:We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
780:You must be pure and help anyone who comes to you, as much as lies in your power. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
781:You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
782:A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
783:All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
784:Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
785:Concentration of the powers of the mind is our only instrument to help us see God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
786:Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
787:Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
788:If you cannot do anything, not a single good work, then take refuge [in the Lord]. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
789:Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
790:Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another." ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
791:So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
792:So long as you have faith in your guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
793:The Gita is a commentary on the Upanishads. The Upanishads are the Bible of India. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
794:The older I get, the less I know. It's wonderful--it makes the world so spacious. ~ Swami Chetanananda, #NFDB
795:Therefore the highest utility for mankind is to find this happiness in the Spirit. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
796:There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
797:The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
798:The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action. ~ Swami Prabhavananda, #NFDB
799:Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
800:We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
801:According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
802:and has found that the world, and the gods, and heaven are ... within his own Self. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
803:Circumstances can never be good or bad. Only the individual man can be good or bad. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
804:Concentration of the powers of the mind is our only instrument to help us see God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
805:Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
806:Everything begins in the mind. If you want to see clearly, you need clear vision. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
807:He thus makes all things complicated, and he is always in trouble. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
808:How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
809:If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
810:Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
811:Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
812:Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace. ~ Swami Muktananda, #NFDB
813:Mercy shall not be for men alone, but shall go beyond, and embrace the whole world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
814:Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
815:Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
816:The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
817:The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence. ~ Swami Nithyananda, #NFDB
818:We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
819:YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
820:Along with the development of concentration we must develop the power of detachment. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
821:Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
822:As the tortoise can draw in his legs, and if you strike him, not one foot comes out, ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
823:Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
824:...extreme love and highest knowledge are one... ~ Swami Vivekananda from Inspired Talks (June 24, 1895), #NFDB
825:If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
826:Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
827:Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
828:The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
829:The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
830:The Mother is our guide and whatever happens or will happen is under Her ordination. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
831:The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
832:There is no failure in the spiritual life, as long as we do not give up the fight. ~ Swami Prabhavananda, #NFDB
833:We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
834:What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
835:When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
836:A little of the infinite is projected into consciousness, and that we call our world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
837:All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
838:Do not disturb the faith of any. . . Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
839:First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
840:freedom is the first condition of growth. What you do not make free, will never grow. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
841:Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
842:In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
843:Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
844:"Mercy shall not be for men alone, but shall go beyond, and embrace the whole world." ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
845:Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
846:Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
847:Struggle,” says Swami Kripalu, “changes an ordinary human into a spiritually awake person. ~ Stephen Cope, #NFDB
848:The only power is in realization, and that lies in ourselves and comes from thinking. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
849:Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
850:Gratitude and mindfulness are like chopsticks. You need both to hold the food of temptation. As ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
851:great difference between the priests and the Upanishads. The Upanishads say, renounce. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
852:If you wish to help a man, never think what that man's attitude should be towards you. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
853:In every religion there are three parts: philosophy, mythology, and ritual. Philosophy ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
854:It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
855:It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
856:One infinite - pure and holy - beyond thoughts and beyond qualities - bow down to thee ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
857:Our only business is to love God, not to ask God for our necessities. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
858:Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
859:Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
860:The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
861:The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
862:The law of life is that the mind should be at rest while the body engages in action. ~ Swami Parthasarathy, #NFDB
863:To work we have the right, but not to the fruits thereof:” Leave the fruits alone. Why ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
864:We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
865:we have to bear the result of our own actions because we attach ourselves to them. ... ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
866:We think and our bodies do not follow. Our actions do not harmonise with our thoughts. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
867:What is that, knowing which we will know everything?
- Vedas? ~ Swami Vivekananda, Rajayoga, 36, #index,#NFDB
868:Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
869:When the body is sufficiently controlled, we can attempt the manipulation of the mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
870:Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
871:Cuando permitimos que las cosas pasen sin pretender aferrarnos a ellas, somos libres. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
872:Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
873:God did not give me everything that i wanted. But, He gave me everything that i needed! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
874:Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
875:Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you. ~ Swami Muktananda, #NFDB
876:I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
877:It is the ideal that has made us what we are, and will make us what we are going to be. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
878:Medicines have limitations; the divine creative life force has none. —Swami Sri Yukteswar ~ Kimberly Snyder, #NFDB
879:My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
880:Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
881:Suffering is sent to remind us to turn our thoughts towards God, who will give us solace. ~ Radhanath Swami, #NFDB
882:The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
883:The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
884:The mind is like a lake lashed into waves. Make the water of the lake clear and calm. ~ Swami Prabhavananda, #NFDB
885:The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
886:These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
887:The spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats. ~ Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami, #NFDB
888:This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
889:We always forget that it is the food out of which we manufacture everything we have. So ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
890:Where it is dark night for the [sense-bound] world, the self controlled [man] is awake. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
891:You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
892:Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
893:If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
894:Manifest the divinity within you and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
895:Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
896:There are thousands of folklore, but in every case the sacrifice must have been kept up. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
897:The Secret of Meditation is radiating blessings from your heart outward to all the world. ~ Swami Kriyananda, #NFDB
898:An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
899:Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
900:GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
901:Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
902:He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
903:I will reject the teachings of the teacher who teaches us to reject teachers and teachings, ~ Radhanath Swami, #NFDB
904:Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
905:National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
906:Not only does charity begin at home. Everything begins at home, including spirituality. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
907:Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
908:Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
909:The God which cannot give me food in this world, cannot give me Heaven in the other world ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
910:The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
911:The highest form of worship that had been laid down by the Bhakta was the worship of man. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
912:The more heart you will be able to manifest, the greater will be the victory you achieve. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
913:… the nature of the Soul is bliss, peace, unchanging. ~ Swami Vivekananda from Inspired Talks (June 25, 1895), #NFDB
914:Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
915:You need not worry or make yourself sleepless about the world; it will go on without you. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
916:Do not hate the evil-hearted, the jealous and the selfish. It is they who promote your Mok ~ Swami Sivananda, #NFDB
917:Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
918:Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine. ~ Narayanananda Swami, #NFDB
919:Forgiveness sympathizes and compassion empathizes. And love? Love synthesizes the two. Appreciation ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
920:If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
921:If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
922:if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
923:In fact, you can enjoy near-perfect health if you get a grip on how nature responds to your nature. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
924:In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75) ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
925:Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
926:Los cristianos, musulmanes y judíos dicen “Amén” o “Ameen”, esto es una variación de OM. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
927:Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
928:No debemos odiar a alguien que nos causa dolor, porque nos está ayudando a purificarnos. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
929:The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
930:The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility. ~ Rama Swami, #NFDB
931:The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
932:They Laugh at me because I am different,
I laugh at them because they all are the same. ~ Swami Vivekananda,#NFDB
933:Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
934:you are all bound by the law of Karma, the Upanishads admit, but they declare the way out. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
935:All that man has to do is to take care of three things; good thought, good word, good deed. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
936:Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
937:Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
938:Einstein used to say, ‘It’s not that I’m smarter, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.’ Yogis ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
939:Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence. ~ Rama Swami, #NFDB
940:Give love, give help, give service, and give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
941:Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
942:In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
943:I say there is but one remedy for one too anxious for the future — to go down on his knees. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
944:Jealousy is an evil which grows in the womb of ego and is nourished by selfishness and attachment. ~ Swami Rama, #NFDB
945:Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
946:Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
947:People laugh at me because I am different;
I laugh at people cause the are all the same. ~ Swami Vivekananda,#NFDB
948:Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
949:The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
950:[The Creator] shines in the cosmic consciousness as a painting in the mind of an artist. ~ Swami Venkatesananda, #NFDB
951:There he realized the oneness of the universe and man, that man is a universe in miniature. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
952:Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
953:"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable". ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
954:“Comfort” is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being “comfortable.” ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
955:God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
956:Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
957:He is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
958:Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
959:The idea is to be natural — no asceticism. Go on, work, only mind that you are not attached. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
960:The mother of all problems and conflicts lies within you, and that is expecting things from others. ~ Swami Rama, #NFDB
961:The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
962:The orthodox Hindu [the Mimâmsaka] does not believe in gods, the unorthodox believe in them. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
963:What is practical religion, then? To get to that state — freedom, the attainment of freedom. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
964:Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
965:Yoga means ‘yoke’, ‘to join’, that is, to join the soul of man with the supreme Soul or God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
966:You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
967:As you elevate spiritually, you start shedding these layers. These avarana, layers, veil the true you. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
968:Bear with the various opinions of everybody. Patience, purity, and perseverance will prevail. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
969:Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
970:Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
971:God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
972:Have Faith in Man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
973:He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
974:If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
975:In a difficulty in the company of the central and the instigator, be successful your central. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
976:It is a great thing to take up a grand ideal in life and then give up one’s whole life to it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
977:It is not the building, but the people that make a church, and that is what we always forget. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
978:It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
979:Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
980:Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds. ~ Narayanananda Swami, #NFDB
981:Perhaps, I thought, the miracle of being an instrument of kindness is the most powerful of all. ~ Radhanath Swami, #NFDB
982:Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
983:Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories, however beautiful they may be. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
984:Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
985:The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
986:The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
987:The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
988:The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
989:There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
990:The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
991:Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
992:Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
993:Christ means Krishna, love of Godhead, Who has His face annointed with tilak. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
994:Don't you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex - appetite or anger? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
995:Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
996:Have you ever wondered why a diet programme can work splendidly for some and not at all for others? Why ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
997:If there is something here that is not in the Vedas, that is your delusion. It does not exist. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
998:If we become overly attached to externals, we may forget their very purpose: to purify the heart ~ Radhanath Swami, #NFDB
999:If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1000:In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1001:Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1002:The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1003:The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1004:The student must have a very humble state of mind and also must be very inquisitive. ~ Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami, #NFDB
1005:THE WHOLE LIFE IS A SUCCESSION OF DREAMS; MY AMBITION IS TO BE A CONSCIOUS DREAMER, THATS ALL. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1006:When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1007:Yoga is the science which teaches us how to get these perceptions [direct experiences of God]. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1008:All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1009:God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1010:None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1011:Si alguien hiere nuestros sentimientos, deberíamos devolverles una sonrisa de agradecimiento. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1012:Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1013:Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1014:When evil thoughts arise, repeat that... "I am the Spirit! I am the Witness, the Ever-Blessed!" ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1015:Whether one becomes a saint or a sinner is to a great extent determined by the company he keeps. ~ Swami Kriyananda, #NFDB
1016:Yoga is the science which teaches us how to get these perceptions [direct experiences of God]. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1017:you should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do slave's work. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1018:Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1019:Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1020:Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1021:Everything that takes place in our life is God revealing His miraculous, incredible mercy upon us. ~ Radhanath Swami, #NFDB
1022:Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it." ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1023:The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1024:The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1025:The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1026:When you find yourself on a vicious cycle, for goodness sakes, stop peddling!” — Swami Beyondananda ~ Bruce H Lipton, #NFDB
1027:Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1028:Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1029:He reveals Himself to the pure heart; the pure and the stainless see God, yea, even in this life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1030:if he does not desire any happiness, if he is free of all [attachment], of all fear, of all anger ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1031:It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1032:Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish. ~ Swami Kriyananda, #NFDB
1033:So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1034:Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1035:Their idea is that marriage is for legalized prostitution. They think like that, ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
1036:The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1037:The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1038:The sage is not sorry for those that are living nor for those that die” (note 4). [Krishna says:] ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1039:We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1040:you consume foods that are light on your digestion and alkaline in nature, you naturally remain healthier. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1041:A good sadhaka, after having gained mastery over manipura, can examine their fears without feeling anxious. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1042:Albert Einstein once said, "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." The ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1043:Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1044:Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1045:In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1046:In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires. ~ Swami Parthasarathy, #NFDB
1047:It is in love that religion exists and not in ceremony, in the pure and sincere love in the heart. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1048:Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1049:Many times a day the mountains change their colors, because the sun is at the service of these mountains. ~ Swami Rama, #NFDB
1050:Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1051:The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness. ~ Swami Kriyananda, #NFDB
1052:This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1053:Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1054:Virtue is the only friend which follows us even beyond the grave. Everything else ends with death. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1055:All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1056:As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1057:Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1058:Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1059:Even by intellectually recognising the difficulties, we really do not know them until we feel them. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1060:even so the sage can draw all his sense-organs inside,” (Ibid. 58.) and nothing can force them out. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1061:Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1062:He who cries out with his whole heart, "O Lord, I want but Thee" , to him the Lord reveals Himself. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1063:Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1064:The breeze of God's grace is blowing continually. You have to set your sail to catch that breeze. ~ Swami Prabhavananda, #NFDB
1065:The genuine Guru is God's representative and he speaks about God and nothing else. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
1066:The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1067:This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1068:We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1069:Divine wisdom is to be got by devotion, meditation, and chastity ~ Swami Vivekananda from Inspired Talks (July 10, 1895), #NFDB
1070:Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1071:God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1072:If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1073:If we only look within, we will see he Light as if we were seeing our own image in a mirror. (122) ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1074:Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1075:The earth is enjoyed by heroes”—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1076:The powers of the mind are like rays of light dissipated; when they are concentrated, they illumine. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1077:there have been only two who were Yogis, possessing the Yogic vision and intuition—Swami Vivekananda and ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
1078:There is no map that can show you how to leap. The map for this is somewhere in our own imagination. ~ Swami Paramananda, #NFDB
1079:The soul was not created, for creation means a combination which means a certain future dissolution. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1080:Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1081:To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1082:We have indeed many things to learn from others; yea, that man who refuses to learn is already dead. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1083:When you continue to practice a certain emotion as a conscious choice, it soon becomes your second nature. It ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1084:When you forgive, somewhere you sacrifice a part of your own existence, your respect, your dignity, yourself. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1085:Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah.” “The restraint of the modifications of the mind-stuff is Yoga.” The ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1086:All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1087:Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1088:Concentration is the act of building focus and meditation is the art of retaining it without losing awareness. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1089:Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1090:Devotional service is more or less a declaration of war against the illusory energy. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
1091:Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1092:It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1093:It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate' ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1094:Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1095:There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1096:The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1097:The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains. ~ Swami Brahmananda, #NFDB
1098:To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1099:We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1100:We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1101:Work for work’s sake. Worship for worship’s sake. Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1102:A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1103:Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1104:Don't depend on something that comes from outside. Outside things are never going to make you happy. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1105:Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1106:Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1107:Liberation means entire freedom—freedom from the bondage of good, as well as from the bondage of evil. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1108:Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1109:The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1110:The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1111:When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1112:Yama, Niyama, Âsana, Prânâyâama, Pratyâhâra, Dhâranâ, Dhyâna, and Samâdhi are the eight limbs of Yoga. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1113:Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1114:Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1115:Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind...what we sow is what we reap. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1116:Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1117:How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1118:If I am unhappy, it has been of my own making, and that very thing shows that I can be happy if I will. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1119:Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1120:Perfection is one thing and enjoyment another; these two having different ends, engage men differently. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1121:Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1122:The network of words is a big forest; it is the cause of a curious wandering of the mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, Bhakti-Yoga, #NFDB
1123:Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1124:We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1125:Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1126:With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1127:You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1128:Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1129:Everyone goes with the flow... but the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1130:Extreme love of God is Bhakti, and this love is the real immortality ~ Swami Vivekananda from Inspired Talks (June 24, 1895), #NFDB
1131:Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1132:If a religion does not teach love, respect, and regard for others, it cannot be the religion of humanity. ~ Swami Muktananda, #NFDB
1133:Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1134:Realization will come in the fullness of time, by living constantly in the company of sadhus (holy men). ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1135:The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1136:The powers of the mind are the rays of the sun dissipated. When they are concentrated, they illumine.
~ Swami Vivekananda,#NFDB
1137:The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1138:You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1139:All this bringing of the mind into a higher state of vibration is included in one word in Yoga — Samadhi. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1140:As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1141:By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1142:Jnâna is never sense-knowledge. We cannot know Brahman, but we are Brahman, the whole of It, not a piece. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1143:Mantra is a spiritual guide which dispels the fear of death and leads one fearlessly to the other shore of life. ~ Swami Rama, #NFDB
1144:Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1145:The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1146:The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1147:There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1148:To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1149:"To work we have the right, but not to the fruits thereof:" Leave the fruits alone. Why care for results? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1150:Vata gets vitiated in the rainy season, pitta is vitiated in summer and kapha is vitiated in spring, for instance. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1151:All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1152:Internal and external purification, contentment, mortification, study, and worship of God are the Niyamas. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1153:In the Bhagavat culture worship of the spiritual master plays a very important role in our life. ~ Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami, #NFDB
1154:It is the touch of the senses that brings all this quality of existence: heat and cold, pleasure and pain. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1155:Liberty, Mukti, is all my religion, and everything that tries to curb it, I will avoid by fight or flight. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1156:Living in the bodily conception, our idea of happiness is like that of a man in delirium. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
1157:Perfect purity is the most essential thing, for only "the pure in heart shall see God". ~ Swami Vivekananda from Jnana Yoga IX, #NFDB
1158:The law of attraction which holds good for the heavenly bodies also holds good for the smallest particles. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1159:The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1160:Though this body has its beginning and end, the dweller in the body is infinite and without end” (note 7). ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1161:Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1162:To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1163:Where none sees another, where it is all One, there is none to be miserable, none to be unhappy (note 48). ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1164:Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1165:External worship is only a symbol of internal worship; but internal worship and purity are the real things. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1166:If one religion true, then all the others also must be true. Thus the Hindu faith is yours as much as mine. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1167:In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1168:Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
1169:Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1170:Move onward and carry into practice that which you are very proud to call your religion, and God bless you! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1171:Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1172:No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1173:Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1174:Relationships are more important than life,but it is important for those relationships to have life in them ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1175:The consistent and persistent man of average intelligence is more likely to succeed than an erratic and lazy genius. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1176:Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1177:You go on with your work and remember that "Never one meets with evil who tries to do good" (Gita, VI. 40). ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1178:According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1179:... and thus moulding our lives in accordance with those of the great-souled ones who have reached the Goal. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1180:Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1181:I base my teaching on the great Vedantic truth of the sameness and omnipresence of the Soul of the Universe. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1182:Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1183:Kindness and love can buy you the whole world; lectures and books and philosophy all stand lower than these. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1184:my Master's message to mankind is: "Be spiritual and realise truth for Yourself." ~ Swami Vivekananda from C.W. Vol 4, My Master, #NFDB
1185:Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1186:Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1187:The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1188:There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1189:[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1190:This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1191:Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1192:In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1193:loss of mental equilibrium take place in persons who are too affected by material conditions ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
1194:Mercy is heaven itself; to be good, we have all to be merciful. Even justice and right should stand on mercy. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1195:Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1196:This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1197:Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1198:Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
1199:How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1200:One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1201:Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1202:This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1203:We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1204:We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1205:Whatever thou worshippest, whatever thou perceivest, whatever thou doest, give up all unto Him and be at rest. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1206:A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
1207:Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1208:As soon as I begin to feel that I am separate from this universe, then first comes fear, and then comes misery. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1209:Do you have the belief in you to move on, even when the whole world is against you, with swords in their hands? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1210:Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1211:If a man with an ideal makes a thousand mistakes, I am sure that the man without an ideal makes fifty thousand. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1212:In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1213:Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1214:The Gita is like a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1215:The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
1216:The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1217:The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood—that marvellous, unselfish, all-suffering, ever-forgiving mother. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1218:There is no sin nor virtue: there is only ignorance. By realisation of non-duality this ignorance is dispelled. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1219:The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1220:This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1221:You're going to say goodbye, go and get your closure. In a hundred years when you're just a haze on the water. ~ Swami Nikhilananda, #NFDB
1222:2. There is another world besides this material world of which we have only limited experience. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
1223:Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1224:Doing good to his fellow-beings is the practical religion of the man full of love. ~ Swami Vivekananda from CW Vol 1 (April 5, 1900), #NFDB
1225:Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1226:He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1227:Krishna is the higher Self, or God. He sees through the argument at once. In this case [the motive] is weakness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1228:Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1229:Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . . ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1230:One moment of company with the holy makes a ship to cross this ocean of life." Such is the power of association. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1231:The scriptures say to wake up from the deep sleep of ignorance, remain fully awake, remain conscious, & go on learning. ~ Rama Swami, #NFDB
1232:You see, there is one thing called love, and there is another thing called union. And union is greater than love ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1233:A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1234:Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1235:Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1236:If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1237:In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1238:Knowledge can never be created, it can only be discovered; and every man who makes a great discovery is inspired. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1239:My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1240:Raja-Yoga is the science of religion, the rationale of all worship, all prayers, forms, ceremonies, and miracles. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1241:Râja-Yoga is the science of religion, the rationale of all worship, all prayers, forms, ceremonies, and miracles. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1242:Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1243:Talk to yourself at least once in a Day, otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1244:The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1245:The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1246:The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1247:The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1248:There is nothing higher and holier than the knowledge which comes to the soul transmitted by a spiritual teacher. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1249:There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1250:The tree laden with fruits is always a bit bent. Not because of any burden but because it has something to offer. Humility ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1251:This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1252:What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1253:When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1254:When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1255:A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1256:Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1257:Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1258:Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1259:Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1260:Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1261:Raja-Yoga is the science of religion, the rationale of all worship, all prayers, forms, ceremonies, and miracles. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1262:Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.
Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.
Love is Life, Hatred is Death. ~ Swami Vivekananda,#NFDB
1263:Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1264:The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1265:Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1266:Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1267:Your prakriti is not something you acquire after you are born; it is sealed in the womb, at the time you are conceived. For ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1268:A spiritual master who is one hundred percent Krishna conscious is the bona fide spiritual master. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
1269:Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1270:Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1271:Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own Karma, through pleasure or pain. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1272:Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
1273:I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1274:If there's a God, we must see him and if there's a soul we must perceive it. Otherwise, it's better not to believe. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1275:Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1276:The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1277:To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1278:Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1279:For that matter, anything is okay as long as it doesn’t become a part of your routine – as long as it doesn’t become a habit. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1280:If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1281:I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1282:In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1283:It is the cheerful mind that is persevering. It is the strong mind that hews its way through a thousand difficulties ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1284:Sâttvika people are very thoughtful, quiet, and patient. They take food in small quantities, and never anything bad. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1285:Some people think, Swami calls himself a powerful magnet, but He is unable to attract us. The fault lies in them only. ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB
1286:The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1287:The infinite divinity is unmanifested; it will have to be manifested. This is spirituality, the science of the soul. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1288:The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1289:We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth, until we experience it ourselves. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1290:Do not spend your energy in talking but meditate in silence; and do not let the rush of the outside world disturb you ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1291:Don't give any chance for others to stole your smile.Because,it's the most valuable asset than anything in your life! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1292:If you are able to terminate the thought in your head though, the desire or emotion will disappear like it never existed. This ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1293:If you cannot attain salvation in this life, what proof is there that you can attain it in the life or lives to come? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1294:If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1295:Inactivity should be avoided by all means. Activity always means resistance. Resist all evils, mental and physical... ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1296:Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1297:Matter is the permanent possibility of sensations," said John Stuart Mill. It is only the suggestion that is outside. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1298: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 ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1299:The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1300:The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1301:Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1302:When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1303:Be unattached, expect nothing in return, attachment comes only where we expect a return, love shines in freedom alone. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1304:Do not spend your energy in talking but meditate in silence; and do not let the rush of the outside world disturb you. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1305:Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
1306:Evil can never survive, though for a time it may seem to triumph. It is only a question of our endurance and patience. ~ Swami Paramananda, #NFDB
1307:Expectations are the illegitimate children – with desires as their step-siblings – of an ignorant mind and conditioned self. If ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1308:If you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be. ~ Swami Vivekananda from C.W. Vol 1, Karma Yoga, #NFDB
1309:It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1310:Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . . ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1311:Men Men Men, these are wanted.
Strong believing young men,
A hundred such and the world will get revolutionized. ~ Swami Vivekananda,#NFDB
1312:Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1313:One will develop ruchi (liking) for chanting of the holy names, when one has compassion for each and every living being. ~ Lokanatha Swami, #NFDB
1314:Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1315:The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1316:The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1317:The mind is in its own nature when it is calm. The moment you can calm it, that [very] moment you will know the truth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1318:The Upanishads told 5,000 years ago that the realisation of God could never be had through the senses. ~ Swami Vivekananda from Jnana Yoga, #NFDB
1319:What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1320:Where God is, there is no other. Where world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1321:Where should you go to seek for God — are not all the poor, the miserable, the weak, Gods? Why not worship them first? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1322:Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1323:Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1324:Every act of love brings happiness; there is no act of love which does not bring peace and blessedness as its reaction. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1325:Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life... ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1326:From a balloon, no minor distinctions are visible, so when man rises high enough, he will not see good and evil people. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1327:Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1328:Let miseries come in millions of rivers and happiness in hundreds! I am no slave to misery! I am no slave to happiness! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1329:Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1330:one is attractive due to (1) wealth, (2) power, (3) fame, (4) beauty, (5) wisdom and (6) renunciation. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
1331:Practise hard; whether you live or die does not matter. You have to plunge in and work, without thinking of the result. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1332:Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted , cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1333:That which is true must be infinite and eternal. That is the one test of truth. It never decays, it is always the same. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1334:There is really no difference between matter, mind and Spirit. They are only different phases of experiencing the One. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1335:The selfless and unattached man may live in the very heart of a crowded and sinful city; he will not be touched by sin. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1336:Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again. ~ Swami Kriyananda, #NFDB
1337:True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters. ~ Swami Paramananda, #NFDB
1338:Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1339:Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1340:Come out into the Universe of Light. Everything in the Universe is Yours, stretch out your arms and Embrace it with Love ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1341:Don't give up your power to change things. Negativity and unhappiness are caused by you. You can change your attitude. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1342:Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1343:Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1344:If the mind is not under control, it is no use living in a cave because the same mind will bring all disturbances there. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1345:Let me draw your attention to one thing which unfortunately we always forget: that is - "O man, have faith in yourself." ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1346:Only by so transcending the world of sense, can he reach his true Self and realise what he really is. ~ Swami Vivekananda from Jnana Yoga VI, #NFDB
1347:Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1348:Religion is not in doctrines, in dogmas, nor in intellectual argumentation; it is being and becoming, it is realization. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1349:The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else. ~ Swami Parthasarathy, #NFDB
1350:This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1351:Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1352:When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1353:You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1354:All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1355:Begin with little things daily and one day you will be doing things that months back you would have thought impossible. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1356:In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path” ― Swami Vivekananda ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
1357:living in harmony with nature and adopting some of the yogic principles were the primary reasons why I did not fall sick at all. I ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1358:Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1359:Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1360:The only way to rise is by doing the duty next to us, and thus gathering strength go on until we reach the highest state. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1361:To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1362:We all are Hanumana – beings of immense power and capabilities. It’s not just an aphorism. Our scientific progress validates this. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1363:We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us". ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1364:According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there is the soul. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1365:All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... Stand up and express the Divinity within you. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1366:Good and evil have an equal share in moulding character, and in some instances misery is a greater teacher than happiness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1367:Losses are always great eye openers. Pleasures never open our eyes. It’s only through pain that we learn our weaknesses. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1368:Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it; is when I call you man. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1369:That is the test of everything. Renounce everything. It is the creative faculty that brings us into all this entanglement. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1370:The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1371:The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1372:The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1373:The Yogi says, religion is practical if you know first why misery exists. All the misery in the world is in the senses. Is ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1374:This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1375:When you can’t get up in the morning, even after a good night’s sleep, it could be due to an imbalance between your kapha and vata. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1376:Yield not to weakness. It does not suit you. Shake off this petty faintheartedness. Stand up, Scorcher of foes, wake up! ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1377:Do you wake up in the morning and first thing, centre yourself by looking at your palms together? Thereby have a nice day. ~ Swami Veda Bharati, #NFDB
1378:Duty is seldom sweet. It is only when love greases its wheels that it runs smoothly; it is a continuous friction otherwise. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1379:Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1380:From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who knows Him becomes free. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1381:God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1382:If you can either change your perspective or your response towards what you find disturbing, ninety per cent of the job is done. The ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1383:If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1384:India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1385:It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1386:Religions are social sciences which help to maintain culture and tradition and support the lawful structure of human society. Yoga ~ Swami Rama, #NFDB
1387:Si tan sólo miráramos en nuestro interior, veríamos la Luz brillando como si fuera nuestra imagen reflejada en un espejo. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1388:The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1389:These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1390:The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1391:To the man who has begun to hate himself the gate to degeneration has already opened; and the same is true of a nation. Our ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1392:A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future nation can be built. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1393:All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1394:God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1395:Humility means one does not impose his conceptions upon others and he is fully dependent on the mercy of the Lord. ~ Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami, #NFDB
1396:Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1397:Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1398:Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already. You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1399:resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1400:Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1401:The kingdom of heaven is within us. The Jewish idea was a kingdom of heaven upon this earth. That was not the idea of Jesus. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1402:The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1403:Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1404:We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1405:All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1406:All the Vedic literatures and the Purāṇas are meant for conquering the darkest region of material existence. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
1407:Do you want to know the secret of life? If you want to have everything, don’t want anything. Everything will run after you. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1408:Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1409:Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1410:Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1411:The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1412:The mother and the father are the causes of this body; so a man must undergo a thousand troubles in order to do good to them. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1413:The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1414:There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1415:The Self is the essence of this universe, the essence of all souls; He is the essence of your own life, nay, ‘Thou art That’. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1416:The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1417:What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1418:If you want the reward, you must also have the punishment; the only way to get out of the punishment is to give up the reward. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1419:Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1420:Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1421:Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1422:To the Yogi everything is bliss, every human face that he sees brings cheerfulness to him. That is the sign of a virtuous man. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1423:We are like the caterpillar which takes the thread out of his own body and of that makes the cocoon, and behold, he is caught. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1424:We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1425:You have too many gurus in this country. They have told you what to do, what to think, what to practice. They are the dictators. ~ Radhanath Swami, #NFDB
1426:Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1427:If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing else. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1428:If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1429:It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1430:It is the coward and the fool who says, ‘This is fate.’” But it is the strong man who stands up and says, “I will make my fate. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1431:Never mind failures; they are quite natural,
they are the beauty of life, these failures.
What would be LIFE without them ~ Swami Vivekananda,#NFDB
1432:Si alguien sufre, esto es una bendición disfrazada, porque por este sufrimiento algunas impurezas son eliminadas en la purga. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1433:So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1434:The art of focusing one’s attention on the Supreme and giving one’s love to Him is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
1435:The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1436:Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1437:We are allowed to worship him. Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1438:We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1439:We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1440:We must realize also that our so-called possessions are just toys which have been lent to us to play with for a little while. A ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1441:What a man 'learns' is really what he 'discovers,' by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1442:What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1443:When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1444:Where one sees another, one hears another so long as there are two, there must be fear, and fear is the mother of all [misery]. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1445:You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, #NFDB
1446:Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1447:Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1448:However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1449:In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1450:Love immense and infinite, broad as the sky and deep as the ocean—this is the one great gain in life. Blessed is he who gets it. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1451:MIND is not a dustbin to keep anger, hatred and jealousy. But it is the treasure box to keep, love happiness and sweet memories. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1452:The path of awakening the kundalini is to turn inwards and pay attention to our world of emotions, thoughts and talents hidden inside us. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1453:"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far." ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1454: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. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1455:We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1456:What a mean 'learns' is really what he 'discovers,' by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1457:whatever you think that you will be.
if you think yourself weak,weak you will be;
if you think yourself strong,you will be ~ Swami Vivekananda,#NFDB
1458:when there is an increase in the mode of ignorance.
O son of Kuru, darkness,inertia, madness are manifested. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da,#NFDB
1459:When we cling to a thought or follow its track, we are performing a mental karma, and that, in turn, is the seed of all physical actions. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1460:When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1461:am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1462:By no prophets or anything. ... Only infinite words, infinite by their very nature, from which the whole universe comes and goes. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1463:Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1464:Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1465:Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1466:Put the good before them, see how eagerly they take it, see how the divine that never dies, that is always living in the human... ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1467:Retain only what you really care about because the stuff we keep inside is what shapes us. What are you made of? Problem or Inconvenience? ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1468:"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1469:there rose this man Krishna, and in the Gita he tries to reconcile the ceremony and the philosophy of the priests and the people. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1470:The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1471: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. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1472:When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1473:sweetmeat. One moment he enjoys a spiritual mood, and the next moment he is beside himself with the pleasure of ‘woman and gold’. ~ Swami Nikhilananda, #NFDB
1474:The goldness of gold, the silverness of silver, the manhood of man, the womanhood of woman, the reality of everything is the Lord. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1475:The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1476:There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1477:The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful. ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1478:To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1479:Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1480:Each individual is another microcosm. What you see in the macrocosm you see in the microcosm; you are a universe by yourself. Not ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1481:Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1482:Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1483:Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1484:If by studying Bhagavad-gītā one decides to surrender to Kṛṣṇa, he is immediately freed from all sinful reactions. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da, #NFDB
1485:Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3) ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1486:No man to be judged by mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1487:so even though all the senses bring in sensations from nature, the ocean-like heart of the sage knows no disturbance, knows no fear ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1488:The path of awakening the kundalini is to turn inwards and pay attention to our world of emotions, thoughts and talents hidden inside us. It ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
1489:There is nothing holier in the world than to keep good company, because the good impressions will then tend to come to the surface. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1490:The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1491:This very world is seen by the five senses as matter, by the very wicked as hell, by the good as heaven, and by the perfect as God. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1492:You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1493:As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1494:Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1495:In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages. ~ Swami Brahmananda, #NFDB
1496:It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1497:Muddy Waters he play in the river Joan Rivers she play in the mud Swami guru play in a big salad bowl Counting lettuce and chewing his cud ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
1498:Physical sound can lead you to the inner vibration of Prana. Prana is the cause of all sound, and sound is the expression of Prana ~ Swami Satchidananda, #NFDB
1499:...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1500:The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject. ~ Swami Kriyananda, #NFDB
52 Integral Yoga
13 Yoga
5 Poetry
5 Occultism
3 Philosophy
2 Psychology
2 Fiction
1 Mythology
1 Mysticism
30 The Mother
30 Satprem
14 A B Purani
10 Sri Ramakrishna
10 Sri Aurobindo
5 Sri Ramana Maharshi
5 Nolini Kanta Gupta
4 Aleister Crowley
3 Lalla
2 Swami Vivekananda
2 Patanjali
2 Mahendranath Gupta
2 H P Lovecraft
17 Agenda Vol 01
14 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
11 Talks
9 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
4 Agenda Vol 04
3 The Synthesis Of Yoga
3 Liber ABA
2 Vedic and Philological Studies
2 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
2 Lovecraft - Poems
2 Agenda Vol 11
2 Agenda Vol 10
2 Agenda Vol 09
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
By Swami Nikhilananda
SRI RAMAKRISHNA, the God-man of modern India, was born at Kamarpukur. This village in the Hooghly District preserved during the last century the idyllic simplicity of the rural areas of Bengal. Situated far from the railway, it was untouched by the glamour of the city. It contained rice-fields, tall palms, royal banyans, a few lakes, and two cremation grounds. South of the village a stream took its leisurely course. A mango orchard dedicated by a neighbouring zemindar to the public use was frequented by the boys for their noonday sports. A highway passed through the village to the great temple of Jagannath at Puri, and the villagers, most of whom were farmers and craftsmen, entertained many passing holy men and pilgrims. The dull round of the rural life was broken by lively festivals, the observance of sacred days, religious singing, and other innocent pleasures.
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About this time Totapuri was suddenly laid up with a severe attack of dysentery. On account of this miserable illness he found it impossible to meditate. One night the pain became excruciating. He could no longer concentrate on Brahman. The body stood in the way. He became incensed with its demands. A free soul, he did not at all care for the body. So he determined to drown it in the Ganges. Thereupon he walked into the river. But, lo! He walks to the other bank." (This version of the incident is taken from the biography of Sri Ramakrishna by Swami Saradananda, one of the Master's direct disciples.) Is there not enough water in the Ganges? Standing dumbfounded on the other bank he looks back across the water. The trees, the temples, the houses, are silhouetted against the sky. Suddenly, in one dazzling moment, he sees on all sides the presence of the Divine Mother. She is in everything; She is everything. She is in the water; She is on land. She is the body; She is the mind. She is pain; She is comfort. She is knowledge; She is ignorance. She is life; She is death. She is everything that one sees, hears, or imagines. She turns "yea" into "nay", and "nay" into "yea". Without Her grace no embodied being can go beyond Her realm. Man has no free will. He is not even free to die. Yet, again, beyond the body and mind She resides in Her Transcendental, Absolute aspect. She is the Brahman that Totapuri had been worshipping all his life.
Totapuri returned to Dakshineswar and spent the remaining hours of the night meditating on the Divine Mother. In the morning he went to the Kali temple with Sri Ramakrishna and prostrated himself before the image of the Mother. He now realized why he had spent eleven months at Dakshineswar. Bidding farewell to the disciple, he continued on his way, enlightened.
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The party entered holy Benares by boat along the Ganges. When Sri Ramakrishna's eyes fell on this city of Siva, where had accumulated for ages the devotion and piety of countless worshippers, he saw it to be made of gold, as the scriptures declare. He was visibly moved. During his stay in the city he treated every particle of its earth with utmost respect. At the Manikarnika Ghat, the great cremation ground of the city, he actually saw Siva, with ash-covered body and tawny matted hair, serenely approaching each funeral pyre and breathing into the ears of the corpses the mantra of liberation; and then the Divine Mother removing from the dead their bonds. Thus he realized the significance of the scriptural statement that anyone dying in Benares attains salvation through the grace of Siva. He paid a visit to Trailanga Swami, the celebrated monk, whom he later declared to be a real paramahamsa, a veritable image of Siva.
Sri Ramakrishna visited Allahabad, at the confluence of the Ganges and the Jamuna, and then proceeded to Vrindavan and Mathura, hallowed by the legends, songs, and dramas about Krishna and the gopis. Here he had numerous visions and his heart overflowed with divine emotion. He wept and said: "O Krishna! Everything here is as it was in the olden days. You alone are absent." He visited the great woman saint, Gangamayi, regarded by Vaishnava devotees as the reincarnation of an intimate attendant of Radha. She was sixty years old and had frequent trances. She spoke of Sri Ramakrishna as an incarnation of Radha. With great difficulty he was persuaded to leave her.
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The other movement playing an important part in the nineteenth-century religious revival of India was the Arya Samaj. The Brahmo Samaj, essentially a movement of compromise with European culture, tacitly admitted the superiority of the West. But the founder of the Arya Samaj was a ' pugnacious Hindu sannyasi who accepted the challenge of Islam and Christianity and was resolved to combat all foreign influence in India. Swami Dayananda (1824-1883) launched this movement in Bombay in 1875, and soon its influence was felt throughout western India. The Swami was a great scholar of the Vedas, which he explained as being strictly monotheistic. He preached against the worship of images and re-established the ancient Vedic sacrificial rites. According to him the Vedas were the ultimate authority on religion, and he accepted every word of them as literally true. The Arya Samaj became a bulwark against the encroachments of Islam and Christianity, and its orthodox flavour appealed to many Hindu minds. It also assumed leadership in many movements of social reform. The caste-system became a target of its attack. Women it liberated from many of their social disabilities. The cause of education received from it a great impetus. It started agitation against early marriage and advocated the remarriage of Hindu widows. Its influence was strongest in the Punjab, the battle-ground of the Hindu and Islamic cultures. A new fighting attitude was introduced into the slumbering Hindu society. Unlike the Brahmo Samaj, the influence of the Arya Samaj was not confined to the intellectuals. It was a force that spread to the masses. It was a dogmatic movement intolerant of those who disagreed with its views, and it emphasized only one way, the Arya Samaj way, to the realization of Truth. Sri Ramakrishna met Swami Dayananda when the latter visited Bengal.
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To spread his message to the four corners of the earth Sri Ramakrishna needed a strong instrument. With his frail body and delicate limbs he could not make great journeys across wide spaces. And such an instrument was found in Narendranath Dutta, his beloved Naren, later known to the world as Swami Vivekananda. Even before meeting Narendranath, the Master had seen him in a vision as a sage, immersed in the meditation of the Absolute, who at Sri Ramakrishna's request had agreed to take human birth to assist him in his work.
Narendra was born in Calcutta on January 12, 1863, of an aristocratic kayastha family. His mother was steeped in the great Hindu epics, and his father, a distinguished attorney of the Calcutta High Court, was an agnostic about religion, a friend of the poor, and a mocker at social conventions. Even in his boyhood and youth Narendra possessed great physical courage and presence of mind, a vivid imagination, deep power of thought, keen intelligence, an extraordinary memory, a love of truth, a passion for purity, a spirit of independence, and a tender heart. An expert musician, he also acquired proficiency in physics, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, history, and literature. He grew up into an extremely handsome young man. Even as a child he practised meditation and showed great power of concentration. Though free and passionate in word and action, he took the vow of austere religious chastity and never allowed the fire of purity to be extinguished by the slightest defilement of body or soul.
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Yet one is not sure whether the Master's soul actually was tortured by this agonizing disease. At least during his moments of spiritual exaltation — which became almost constant during the closing days of his life on earth — he lost all consciousness of the body, of illness and suffering. One of his attendants (Latu, later known as Swami Adbhutananda.) said later on: "While Sri Ramakrishna lay sick he never actually suffered pain. He would often say: 'O mind! Forget the body, forget the sickness, and remain merged in Bliss.' No, he did not really suffer. At times he would be in a state when the thrill of joy was clearly manifested in his body. Even when he could not speak he would let us know in some way that there was no suffering, and this fact was clearly evident to all who watched him. People who did not understand him thought that his suffering was very great. What spiritual joy he transmitted to us at that time! Could such a thing have been possible if he had 'been suffering physically? It was during this period that he taught us again these truths: 'Brahman is always unattached. The three gunas are in It, but It is unaffected by them, just as the wind carries odour yet remains odourless.' 'Brahman is Infinite Being, Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Bliss. In It there exist no delusion, no misery, no disease, no death, no growth, no decay.' 'The Transcendental Being and the being within are one and the same. There is one indivisible Absolute Existence.'"
The Holy Mother secretly went to a Siva temple across the Ganges to intercede with the Deity for the Master's recovery. In a revelation she was told to prepare herself for the inevitable end.
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Translated from the Bengali by Swami Nikhilananda
Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
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In the Introduction I have drawn much material from the Life of Sri Ramakrishna, published by the Advaita Ashrama, Myvati, India. I have also consulted the excellent article on Sri Ramakrishna by Swami Nirvednanda, in the second volume of the Cultural Heritage of India.
The book contains many songs sung either by the Master or by the devotees. These form an important feature of the spiritual tradition of Bengal and were for the most part written by men of mystical experience. For giving the songs their present form I am grateful to Mr. John Moffitt, Jr.
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The life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna have redirected the thoughts of the denationalized Hindus to the spiritual ideals of their forefa thers. During the latter part of the nineteenth century his was the time-honoured role of the Saviour of the Eternal Religion of the Hindus. His teachings played an important part in liberalizing the minds of orthodox pundits and hermits. Even now he is the silent force that is moulding the spiritual destiny of India. His great disciple, Swami Vivekananda, was the first Hindu missionary to preach the message of Indian culture to the enlightened minds of Europe and America. The full consequence of Swami Vivekn and work is still in the womb of the future.
May this translation of the first book of its kind in the religious history of the world, being the record of the direct words of a prophet, help stricken humanity to come nearer to the Eternal Verity of life and remove dissension and quarrel from among the different faiths!
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He was an educationist all his life both in a spiritual and in a secular sense. After he passed out of College, he took up work as headmaster in a number of schools in succession Narail High School, City School, Ripon College School, Metropolitan School, Aryan School, Oriental School, Oriental Seminary and Model School. The causes of his migration from school to school were that he could not get on with some of the managements on grounds of principles and that often his spiritual mood drew him away to places of pilgrimage for long periods. He worked with some of the most noted public men of the time like Iswar Chandra Vidysgar and Surendranath Banerjee. The latter appointed him as a professor in the City and Ripon Colleges where he taught subjects like English, philosophy, history and economics. In his later days he took over the Morton School, and he spent his time in the staircase room of the third floor of it, administering the school and preaching the message of the Master. He was much respected in educational circles where he was usually referred to as Rector Mahashay. A teacher who had worked under him writes thus in warm appreciation of his teaching methods: "Only when I worked with him in school could I appreciate what a great educationist he was. He would come down to the level of his students when teaching, though he himself was so learned, so talented. Ordinarily teachers confine their instruction to what is given in books without much thought as to whether the student can accept it or not. But M., would first of all gauge how much the student could take in and by what means. He would employ aids to teaching like maps, pictures and diagrams, so that his students could learn by seeing. Thirty years ago (from 1953) when the question of imparting education through the medium of the mother tongue was being discussed, M. had already employed Bengali as the medium of instruction in the Morton School." (M The Apostle and the Evangelist by Swami Nityatmananda Part I. P. 15.)
Imparting secular education was, however, only his profession ; his main concern was with the spiritual regeneration of man a calling for which Destiny seems to have chosen him. From his childhood he was deeply pious, and he used to be moved very much by Sdhus, temples and Durga Puja celebrations. The piety and eloquence of the great Brahmo leader of the times, Keshab Chander Sen, elicited a powerful response from the impressionable mind of Mahendra Nath, as it did in the case of many an idealistic young man of Calcutta, and prepared him to receive the great Light that was to dawn on him with the coming of Sri Ramakrishna into his life.
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Though his children received proper attention from him, his real family, both during the Master's lifetime and after, consisted of saints, devotees, Sannysins and spiritual aspirants. His life exemplifies the Master's teaching that an ideal householder must be like a good maidservant of a family, loving and caring properly for the children of the house, but knowing always that her real home and children are elsewhere. During the Master's lifetime he spent all his Sundays and other holidays with him and his devotees, and besides listening to the holy talks and devotional music, practised meditation both on the Personal and the Impersonal aspects of God under the direct guidance of the Master. In the pages of the Gospel the reader gets a picture of M.'s spiritual relationship with the Master how from a hazy belief in the Impersonal God of the Brahmos, he was step by step brought to accept both Personality and Impersonality as the two aspects of the same Non-dual Being, how he was convinced of the manifestation of that Being as Gods, Goddesses and as Incarnations, and how he was established in a life that was both of a Jnni and of a Bhakta. This Jnni-Bhakta outlook and way of living became so dominant a feature of his life that Swami Raghavananda, who was very closely associated with him during his last six years, remarks: "Among those who lived with M. in latter days, some felt that he always lived in this constant and conscious union with God even with open eyes (i.e., even in waking consciousness)." ( Swami Raghavananda's article on M. in Prabuddha Bharata vol. XXXVII. P. 442.)
Besides undergoing spiritual disciplines at the feet of the Master, M. used to go to holy places during the Master's lifetime itself and afterwards too as a part of his Sdhan.
He was one of the earliest of the disciples to visit Kamarpukur, the birthplace of the Master, in the latter's lifetime itself; for he wished to practise contemplation on the Master's early life in its true original setting. His experience there is described as follows by Swami Nityatmananda: "By the grace of the Master, he saw the entire Kamarpukur as a holy place bathed in an effulgent Light. Trees and creepers, beasts and birds and men all were made of effulgence. So he prostrated to all on the road. He saw a torn cat, which appeared to him luminous with the Light of Consciousness. Immediately he fell to the ground and saluted it" (M The Apostle and the Evangelist by Swami Nityatmananda vol. I. P. 40.) He had similar experience in Dakshineswar also. At the instance of the Master he also visited Puri, and in the words of Swami Nityatmananda, "with indomitable courage, M. embraced the image of Jagannath out of season."
The life of Sdhan and holy association that he started on at the feet of the Master, he continued all through his life. He has for this reason been most appropriately described as a Grihastha-Sannysi (householder-Sannysin). Though he was forbidden by the Master to become a Sannysin, his reverence for the Sannysa ideal was whole-hearted and was without any reservation. So after Sri Ramakrishna's passing away, while several of the Master's householder devotees considered the young Sannysin disciples of the Master as inexperienced and inconsequential, M. stood by them with the firm faith that the Master's life and message were going to be perpetuated only through them. Swami Vivekananda wrote from America in a letter to the inmates of the Math: "When Sri Thkur (Master) left the body, every one gave us up as a few unripe urchins. But M. and a few others did not leave us in the lurch. We cannot repay our debt to them." ( Swami Raghavananda's article on M. in Prabuddha Bharata vol. XXX P. 442.)
M. spent his weekends and holidays with the monastic brethren who, after the Master's demise, had formed themselves into an Order with a Math at Baranagore, and participated in the intense life of devotion and meditation that they followed. At other times he would retire to Dakshineswar or some garden in the city and spend several days in spiritual practice taking simple self-cooked food. In order to feel that he was one with all mankind he often used to go out of his home at dead of night, and like a wandering Sannysin, sleep with the waifs on some open verandah or footpath on the road.
After the Master's demise, M. went on pilgrimage several times. He visited Banras, Vrindvan, Ayodhy and other places. At Banras he visited the famous Trailinga Swmi and fed him with sweets, and he had long conversations with Swami Bhaskarananda, one of the noted saintly and scholarly Sannysins of the time. In 1912 he went with the Holy Mother to Banras, and spent about a year in the company of Sannysins at Banras, Vrindvan, Hardwar, Hrishikesh and Swargashram. But he returned to Calcutta, as that city offered him the unique opportunity of associating himself with the places hallowed by the Master in his lifetime. Afterwards he does not seem to have gone to any far-off place, but stayed on in his room in the Morton School carrying on his spiritual ministry, speaking on the Master and his teachings to the large number of people who flocked to him after having read his famous Kathmrita known to English readers as The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna.
This brings us to the circumstances that led to the writing and publication of this monumental work, which has made M. one of the immortals in hagiographic literature.
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In addition to this instinct for diary-keeping, M. had great endowments contri buting to success in this line. Writes Swami Nityatmananda who lived in close association with M., in his book entitled M - The Apostle and Evangelist: "M.'s prodigious memory combined with his extraordinary power of imagination completely annihilated the distance of time and place for him. Even after the lapse of half a century he could always visualise vividly, scenes from the life of Sri Ramakrishna. Superb too was his power to portray pictures by words."
Besides the prompting of his inherent instinct, the main inducement for M. to keep this diary of his experiences at Dakshineswar was his desire to provide himself with a means for living in holy company at all times. Being a school teacher, he could be with the Master only on Sundays and other holidays, and it was on his diary that he depended for 'holy company' on other days. The devotional scriptures like the Bhagavata say that holy company is the first and most important means for the generation and growth of devotion. For, in such company man could hear talks on spiritual matters and listen to the glorification of Divine attri butes, charged with the fervour and conviction emanating from the hearts of great lovers of God. Such company is therefore the one certain means through which Sraddha (Faith), Rati (attachment to God) and Bhakti (loving devotion) are generated. The diary of his visits to Dakshineswar provided M. with material for re-living, through reading and contemplation, the holy company he had had earlier, even on days when he was not able to visit Dakshineswar. The wealth of details and the vivid description of men and things in the midst of which the sublime conversations are set, provide excellent material to re-live those experiences for any one with imaginative powers. It was observed by M.'s disciples and admirers that in later life also whenever he was free or alone, he would be pouring over his diary, transporting himself on the wings of imagination to the glorious days he spent at the feet of the Master.
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The two pamphlets in English entitled the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna appeared in October and November 1897. They drew the spontaneous acclamation of Swami Vivekananda, who wrote on 24th November of that year from Dehra Dun to M.:"Many many thanks for your second leaflet. It is indeed wonderful. The move is quite original, and never was the life of a Great Teacher brought before the public untarnished by the writer's mind, as you are doing. The language also is beyond all praise, so fresh, so pointed, and withal so plain and easy. I cannot express in adequate terms how I have enjoyed them. I am really in a transport when I read them. Strange, isn't it? Our Teacher and Lord was so original, and each one of us will have to be original or nothing.
I now understand why none of us attempted His life before. It has been reserved for you, this great work. He is with you evidently." ( Vednta Kesari Vol. XIX P. 141. Also given in the first edition of the Gospel published from Ramakrishna Math, Madras in 1911.)
And Swamiji added a post script to the letter: "Socratic dialogues are Plato all over you are entirely hidden. Moreover, the dramatic part is infinitely beautiful. Everybody likes it here or in the West." Indeed, in order to be unknown, Mahendranath had used the pen-name M., under which the book has been appearing till now. But so great a book cannot remain obscure for long, nor can its author remain unrecognised by the large public in these modern times. M. and his book came to be widely known very soon and to meet the growing demand, a full-sized book, Vol. I of the Gospel, translated by the author himself, was published in 1907 by the Brahmavadin Office, Madras. A second edition of it, revised by the author, was brought out by the Ramakrishna Math, Madras in December 1911, and subsequently a second part, containing new chapters from the original Bengali, was published by the same Math in 1922. The full English translation of the Gospel by Swami Nikhilananda appeared first in 1942.
In Bengali the book is published in five volumes, the first part having appeared in 1902
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It looks as if M. was brought to the world by the Great Master to record his words and transmit them to posterity. Swami Sivananda, a direct disciple of the Master and the second President of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, says on this topic: "Whenever there was an interesting talk, the Master would call Master Mahashay if he was not in the room, and then draw his attention to the holy words spoken. We did not know then why the Master did so. Now we can realise that this action of the Master had an important significance, for it was reserved for Master Mahashay to give to the world at large the sayings of the Master." ( Vednta Kesari Vol. XIX P 141.) Thanks to M., we get, unlike in the case of the great teachers of the past, a faithful record with date, time, exact report of conversations, description of concerned men and places, references to contemporary events and personalities and a hundred other details for the last four years of the Master's life (1882-'86), so that no one can doubt the historicity of the Master and his teachings at any time in the future.
M. was, in every respect, a true missionary of Sri Ramakrishna right from his first acquaintance with him in 1882. As a school teacher, it was a practice with him to direct to the Master such of his students as had a true spiritual disposition. Though himself prohibited by the Master to take to monastic life, he encouraged all spiritually inclined young men he came across in his later life to join the monastic Order. Swami Vijnanananda, a direct Sannysin disciple of the Master and a President of the Ramakrishna Order, once remarked to M.: "By enquiry, I have come to the conclusion that eighty percent and more of the Sannysins have embraced the monastic life after reading the Kathmrita (Bengali name of the book) and coming in contact with you." ( M
The Apostle and the Evangelist by Swami Nityatmananda Part I, P 37.)
In 1905 he retired from the active life of a Professor and devoted his remaining twenty-seven years exclusively to the preaching of the life and message of the Great Master. He bought the Morton Institution from its original proprietors and shifted it to a commodious four-storeyed house at 50 Amherst Street, where it flourished under his management as one of the most efficient educational institutions in Calcutta. He generally occupied a staircase room at the top of it, cooking his own meal which consisted only of milk and rice without variation, and attended to all his personal needs himself. His dress also was the simplest possible. It was his conviction that limitation of personal wants to the minimum is an important aid to holy living. About one hour in the morning he would spend in inspecting the classes of the school, and then retire to his staircase room to pour over his diary and live in the divine atmosphere of the earthly days of the Great Master, unless devotees and admirers had already gathered in his room seeking his holy company.
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Though a much-sought-after spiritual guide, an educationist of repute, and a contemporary and close associate of illustrious personages like Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, Keshab Chander Sen and Iswar Chander Vidysgar, he was always moved by the noble humanity of a lover of God, which consists in respecting the personalities of all as receptacles of the Divine Spirit. So he taught without the consciousness of a teacher, and no bar of superiority stood in the way of his doing the humblest service to his students and devotees. "He was a commission of love," writes his close devotee, Swami Raghavananda, "and yet his soft and sweet words would pierce the stoniest heart, make the worldly-minded weep and repent and turn Godwards."
( Prabuddha Bharata Vol. XXXVII P 499.)
As time went on and the number of devotees increased, the staircase room and terrace of the 3rd floor of the Morton Institution became a veritable Naimisaranya of modern times, resounding during all hours of the day, and sometimes of night, too, with the word of God coming from the Rishi-like face of M. addressed to the eager God-seekers sitting around. To the devotees who helped him in preparing the text of the Gospel, he would dictate the conversations of the Master in a meditative mood, referring now and then to his diary. At times in the stillness of midnight he would awaken a nearby devotee and tell him: "Let us listen to the words of the Master in the depths of the night as he explains the truth of the Pranava." ( Vednta Kesari XIX P. 142.) Swami Raghavananda, an intimate devotee of M., writes as follows about these devotional sittings: "In the sweet and warm months of April and May, sitting under the canopy of heaven on the roof-garden of 50 Amherst Street, surrounded by shrubs and plants, himself sitting in their midst like a Rishi of old, the stars and planets in their courses beckoning us to things infinite and sublime, he would speak to us of the mysteries of God and His love and of the yearning that would rise in the human heart to solve the Eternal Riddle, as exemplified in the life of his Master. The mind, melting under the influence of his soft sweet words of light, would almost transcend the frontiers of limited existence and dare to peep into the infinite. He himself would take the influence of the setting and say,'What a blessed privilege it is to sit in such a setting (pointing to the starry heavens), in the company of the devotees discoursing on God and His love!' These unforgettable scenes will long remain imprinted on the minds of his hearers." (Prabuddha Bharata Vol XXXVII P 497.)
About twenty-seven years of his life he spent in this way in the heart of the great city of Calcutta, radiating the Master's thoughts and ideals to countless devotees who flocked to him, and to still larger numbers who read his Kathmrita (English Edition : The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna), the last part of which he had completed before June 1932 and given to the press. And miraculously, as it were, his end also came immediately after he had completed his life's mission. About three months earlier he had come to stay at his home at 13/2 Gurdasprasad Chaudhuary Lane at Thakur Bari, where the Holy Mother had herself installed the Master and where His regular worship was being conducted for the previous 40 years. The night of 3rd June being the Phalahrini Kli Pooja day, M.
0.01 - Life and Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Yoga, as Swami Vivekananda has said, may be regarded as a means of compressing one's evolution into a single life or a few years or even a few months of bodily existence. A given system of Yoga, then, can be no more than a selection or a compression, into narrower but more energetic forms of intensity, of the general methods which are already being used loosely, largely, in a leisurely movement, with a profuser apparent waste of material and energy but with a more complete combination by the great
Mother in her vast upward labour. It is this view of Yoga that can alone form the basis for a sound and rational synthesis of Yogic methods. For then Yoga ceases to appear something mystic and abnormal which has no relation to the ordinary processes of the World-Energy or the purpose she keeps in view in her two great movements of subjective and objective selffulfilment; it reveals itself rather as an intense and exceptional use of powers that she has already manifested or is progressively
0 1958-02-03a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have received a long letter from Swami,1 who in essence says that I should be able to realize what I have to realize right here with you, but he does not refuse to take me with him should I persist in my intention.
Mother, I am placing all this in your hands, sincerely.
0 1958-03-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Swami must soon take to the road again, through Ceylon, towards March 20 or 25. So I shall go wandering with him until May; towards the beginning of May, he will return to India. I hope to have learned my lesson by then, and to have learned it well. Inwardly, I have understood that there is only you but its these problem children on the surface who must be made to toe the line once and for all.
Sweet Mother, I am in a hurry to work for you. Will you still want me? Mother, I need you, I need you. I would like to ask you an absurd question: Do you think of me? I have only you, you alone in the world.
0 1958-08-29, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
(Note written by Mother after an experience She had during a playground meditation when Swami J.J. was present. It was this Swami with whom Satprem journeyed in the Himalayas to receive tantric initiation.)
[Satprem would later part company with this Swami and follow a thorough tantric discipline with another guru who will henceforth be called X in the Agenda.]
The mantra written upon each of the souvenirs1 from the Himalayas has a strong power of evoking the Supreme Mother.
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The Swami brought back various objects and souvenirs from the Himalayas which he presented to Mother.
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0 1958-09-16 - OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The tantric Swami.
The different mantras or prayers that came to Mother and which She grouped under the heading Prayers of the Consciousness of the Cells, are included as an addendum to the Agenda of 1959.
0 1958-10-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
When the disciple became a Sannyasi and travelled in the Himalayas with the tantric Swami
In this vision, the d. ceased tantric guru of the guru who initiated Satprem appeared to Mother in a dark blue light and 'imposed' himself on her to tell her certain things.
0 1958-10-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
For example, this question of PowerTHE Powerover Matter. Those who perceive me as the eternal, universal Mother and Sri Aurobindo as the Avatar are surprised that our power is not absolute. They are surprised that we have not merely to say, Let it be thus for it to be thus. This is because, in the integral realization, the union of the two is essential: a union of the power that proceeds from the eternal position and the power that proceeds from the sadhana through evolutionary growth. Similarly, how is it that those who have reached even the summits of yogic knowledge (I was thinking of Swami) need to resort to beings like gods or demigods to be able to realize things?Because they have indeed united with certain higher forces and entities, but it was not decreed since the beginning of time that they were this particular being. They were not born as this or that, but through evolution they united with a latent possibility in themselves. Each one carries the Eternal within himself, but one can join Him only when one has realized the complete union of the latent Eternal with the eternal Eternal.
And this explains everything, absolutely everything: how it works, how it functions in the world.3 I was saying to myself, But I have no powers, I have no powers! Several days ago, I said, But after all, I KNOW WHO is there, I know, yet how is it that ? There, up to there (the level of the head), it is all-powerful, nothing can resist but here it is ineffective. So those who have faith, even an ignorant but real faith (it can be ignorant but nevertheless it is real), say, What! How can you have no powers? Because the sadhana is not yet over.
0 1958-11-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Last night, I thought, My god! If I have to Individually, with this one or that one, by selecting the best, I could get somewhere, but this this mass.1 Swami had told me sohe told me immediately after his first meditation (collective meditation at the Ashram playground), he told me, The stuff is not good! (Mother laughs)
I didnt press the matter.
0 1958-11-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
It can hardly be formulated; these are merely impressions that follow one another. I know that when you thought of leaving with Swami,1 I saw that a door was opening, that it was the truth, that this was IT.
My immediate impression was that you were being put in direct contact with this this sort of Fatality that here they call karma, which is the consequence yes, something that must be exhausted, something that remains in the consciousness.
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The other indication is what I told you the other day. When you thought of leaving to join Swami, I immediately saw a stream of light: Ah, the road is opening up! So I said, It is good. And while you were away in Ceylon, I followed you from day to day. You called much more than the second time, when you were in the Himalayas; and with the physical hardships you were undergoing, I was very, very close to you I constantly felt what was happening.
And then I saw a GREAT light, like a glory, when you were at Rameswaram. A great light. And when you returned here, this light was upon you, very strong and imposing. But at the same time, I felt that it needed protectingto be shielded, protected that it was not yet established. Established, ready to resist all that decomposes an experience. I would have liked to have kept you apart, under a glass case, but then I saw that this would have drawbacks as well as advantages. Also, I liked the way you wanted to fight against an uncomprehending reception due to your orange robes and your shaved head. Of course, it was a much shorter path than the other, but it was more difficult.
0 1958-12-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Otherwise, if you consider it preferable to wait, I could go join Swami in Rameswaram, discarding all my little personal reactions towards him. And I would try my best to find again the Light of the first time and return to you stronger. I dont know. I will do what you say. All this really has to change. I dont know, moreover, whether Swami wishes to have me.
Mother, I need you, I need you. Forgive me and tell me what I should do.
0 1958-12-15 - tantric mantra - 125,000, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Swami received me warmly and is doing all he can with all his heart. I am following his instructions to the letter for I believe that your grace is acting through him. Furthermore, he is totally devoted to you and spoke of you as no one ever hashe understands many things. I was unfair in my reactions towards him.
At the new moon, when I felt very down, he gave me the first tantric mantraa mantra to Durga. For a period of 41 days, I must repeat it 125,000 times and go every morning to the Temple, stand before Parvati and recite this mantra within me for at least one hour. Then I must go to the sanctuary of Shiva and recite another mantra for half an hour. Practically speaking, I have to repeat constantly within me the mantra to Durga in a silent concentration, whatever I may be doing on the outside. In these conditions, it is difficult to think of you and this has created a slight conflict in me, but I believe that your Grace is acting through Swami and through Durga, whom I am invoking all the time I remember what you told me about the necessity for intermediaries and I am obeying Swami unreservedly.
Mother, things are far from being what they were the first time in Rameswaram, and I am living through certain moments that are hell the enemy seems to have been unleashed with an extraordinary violence. It comes in waves, and after it recedes, I am literally SHATTEREDphysically, mentally and vitally drained. This morning, while going to the temple, I lived through one of these moments. All this suffering that suddenly sweeps down upon me is horrible. Yes, I had the feeling of being BACKED UP AGAINST A WALL, exactly as in your vision I was up against a wall. I was walking among these immense arcades of sculptured granite and I could see myself walking, very small, all alone, alone, ravaged with pain, filled with a nameless despair, for nowhere was there a way out. The sea was nearby and I could have thrown myself into it; otherwise, there was only the sanctuary of Parvati but there was no more Africa to flee to, everything closed in all around me, and I kept repeating, Why? Why? This much suffering was truly inhuman, as if my last twenty years of nightmare were crashing down upon me. I gritted my teeth and went to the sanctuary to say my mantra. The pain in me was so strong that I broke into a cold sweat and almost fainted. Then it subsided. Yet even now I feel completely battered.
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My very dear child, I am adding on to what I wrote you this morning to ask you to follow very scrupulously the indications given by Swamihe knows these things and has offered himself very sincerely as an instrument of action for my Grace.
When you invoke Durga, it is I you invoke through her, when you invoke Shiva, it is I you invoke through himand in the final analysis, to the Supreme Lord go all prayers.
0 1958-12-24, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Your last letter was a great comfort to me. If you were not there, with me, everything would be so absurd and impossible. I am again disturbing you because Swami tells me that you are worried and that I should write to you. Not much has changed, except that I am holding on and am confident. Yesterday, I again suffered an agonizing wave, in the temple, and I found just enough strength to repeat your name with each beat of my heart, like someone drowning. I remained as motionless as a pillar of stone before the sanctuary, with only your name (my mantra would not come out), then it cleared. It was brutal. I am confident that with each wave I am gaining in strength, and I know you are there. But I am aware that if the enemy is so violent it is because something in me responds, or has responded, something that has not made its surrender that is the critical point. Mother, may your grace help me to place everything in your hands, everything, without any shadow. I want so much to emerge into the Light, to be rid of all this once and for all.
I am following Swamis instructions to the letter. Sometimes it all seems to lack warmth and spontaneity, but I am holding on. I might add that we are living right next to the bazaar, amidst a great racket 20 hours a day, which does not make things easier. So I repeat my mantra as one pounds his fists against the walls of a prison. Sometimes it opens a little, you send me a little joy, and then everything becomes better again.
Swami told me that the mantra to Durga is intended to pierce through into the subconscient. To complement this work, he does his pujas to Kali, and finally one of his friends, X, the High Priest of the temple in Rameswaram (who presided over my initiation and has great occult powers), has undertaken to say a very powerful mantra over me daily, for a period of eight days, to extirpate the dark forces from my subconscious. The operation already began four days ago. While reciting his mantra, he holds a glass of water in his hand, then he makes me drink it. It seems that on the eighth day, if the enemy has been trapped, this water turns yellow then the operation is over and the poisoned water is thrown out. (I tell you all this because I prefer that you know.) In any event, I like X very much, he is a very luminous, very good man. If I am not delivered after all this!
In truth, I believe only in the Grace. My mantra and all the rest seem to me only little tricks to try to win over your Grace.
0 1958-12-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
One sentence in your letter prompted much reflection; you write that Xs action might be useful here, too. After hesitating, I told Swami of the magic attack aimed directly against you.
If you wish, two things can be done to help your action: either X can undertake certain mantric operations upon you here in Rameswaram, or better still, he can immediately come to Pondicherry with Swami and do what is needed in front of you.
Sweet Mother, I indeed suspect that you want to endure, to bear this struggle all alone. Oh, I think I understand a number of things about the mechanism of these attacks and their connection with me, about the Divine Love that embraces all and takes into itself the suffering and the evil of menall this overwhelms me with a sudden understanding. It seems to me that I am seeing and feeling all that you are facing, all that you are taking upon yourself for us. The suffering of the Divine in Matter has been an overwhelming revelation to meAh! I see, I want to fight, I want to be totally on your side; I am now and forever determined.
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X is at the summit of tantric initiation, and his power is not the fruit of a simple knowledge. He holds it directly from the Divine, and these things have been in his family traditionally from ten generations. No black magic can resist his power. His action is not brutal, he does not mechanically apply formulas, he holds this Science and knows how to apply it like an expert chemist, always in Light, Love and sweetness. If you agree that he come to see you, he will immediately know the source of these attacks upon you and will even be able to make the attacking force speak. He has this power. Of course, neither X nor Swami will divulge this to anyone, and everything will be kept secret. You have only to send word, or a telegram: No objection.
The work can be done from here also, but naturally it will not be quite as effective. In that case, you would have to set a specific time to synchronize the action in Rameswaram and Pondicherry. Swami can also do something in his pujas. It is for you to decide, but I hope you will not want to prolong this battle unnecessarily.
On my side, within my little field, I am taking the bull by the horns and henceforth the enemy will no longer have my complicity. May all my being be turned solely towards your Lightand be your help, your instrument, your knight.
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I have just now received your letter of the 28th. On that day I definitely felt that there was a decisive change in the situation and I understood right away that you had spoken to Swami and also that what I had written to you gave you the opportunity to take a great step. I am very happy and can say with certitude that the worst is over. However, from several points of view, I infinitely appreciate Xs offer. And although I do not think it necessary, or even desirable, that they both come here (it would create a veritable revolution and perhaps even a panic among the ashramites), I am sure that their intervention in Rameswaram itself would not only be useful but most effective
Yes, everything has changed since you now understand that your battle is not only a personal battle and that by winning it, it is a real service you are rendering to the Divine Work.
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P.S. I shall propose to Swami to enter into contact with them at 8:45 p.m., if this time suits them.
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0 1959-01-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
His action here has been very effective and really very interesting. I still do not know whether someone has really done black magic, and the villain has yet to appear before me. But already several days ago the malefic influence completely disappeared without leaving any trace in the atmosphere. Also their mantric intervention did not stop at that, for it has had another most interesting result. I am preparing a long letter for Swami to explain all this to him
The pain on the left side has not entirely gone and there have been some complications which have delayed things. But I feel much better. In fact, I am rebuilding my health, and I am in no hurry to resume the exhausting days as before. It is quiet upstairs for working, and I am going to take advantage of this to prepare the Bulletin1 at leisure. As I had not read over the pages on the message that we had prepared for the 31st, I have revised and transformed them into an article. It will be the first one in the February issue. I am now going to choose the others. I will tell you which ones I have chosen and in what order I will put them.
0 1959-01-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This morning, X told me that he would be most happy to continue his action upon you if it would help your work; he has continued it anyway, even after knowing that the malefic influence was expelled from the Ashram. By the way, X told me that this evil spirit is continuing to circle around the Ashram, but beyond its borders. Therefore, if you agree, it would be necessary for him to come to Pondicherry one of these days to come to grips directly with the evil one and finish him off in such a way that he can no longer come to disturb the sadhaks, or your work, upon the slightest pretext. Then X could force this spirit to appear before him, and thereby free the atmosphere from its influence. Anyway, this trip to Pondicherry would not take place in the near future, and it would be easy to give him an official excuse: seminars on the Tantra Shastra that will interest all the Sanskritists at the Ashram. Moreover, Xs work would be done quietly in his room when he does his daily puja. From here, from Rameswaram, it is rather difficult to attract Pondicherrys atmosphere and do the work with precision. Of course, nothing will be done without your express consent. Swami is writing you on his own to tell you of the revelation that X received from his [deceased] guru concerning your experience and the schemings of certain Ashram members.
In this regard, perhaps you know that X is the tenth in the line of Bhaskaraya (my spelling of this name is perhaps not correct), the great Tantric of whom you had a vision, who could comm and the coming of Kali along with all her warriors. It is from X that Swami received his initiation.
Your last letter gave us great pleasure, knowing that you have finally recovered physically. But we deeply hope that you will not again take up the countless activities that formerly consumed all your timeso many people come to you egoistically, for prestige, to be able to say that they are on familiar terms with you. You know this, of course
0 1959-01-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I will therefore give you initiation this Friday or Saturday, on the day of the full moon or the day before. This first stage will last three months during which you will have to repeat 1 lakh2 times the mantra that I will give you. At the end of three months, I will come to see you in Pondicherryor you will come here for a fortnight, and as soon as I have received the message from my guru, I will give you the second stage that will last three months as well. At the end of these three months, you will receive the full initiation. X warned me that the first stage I am to receive provokes attacks and tests but that all this disappears with the second stage. Forewarned is forearmed. For what reason I do not know, but X told me that the particular nature of my initiation should remain secret and that he will say nothing about it to Swami, and he added (in speaking of the speed of the process), But you will not be less than the Swami. (!!) There, I wanted you to knowbesides, you were present in Xs vision. All this happened at a time when I was in the most desperate crisis I have ever known. Sweet Mother, there is no end to expressing my gratitude to you, and yet with the least trial, I am reduced to nothing. Why have you so much grace for me?
I would like very much to return to Pondicherry for the February Darshan and once again begin working for you. Today I am sending a second lot to Pavitra and tomorrow I will start on the Aphorisms, for I do not want to make you wait any longer. I will send a third and final lot to Pavitra by the end of the month, in time for printing. I am very touched, sweet Mother, by your attention and the money you are sending me.
0 1959-01-31, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have reflected for a long time on that passage in your letter where you say that your body needs a mantra to hasten its transformation. Certainly X can do something in this realm, but I have not yet spoken to him (and I shall not speak of this to Swami).
X knows very little about your true work and what Swami has been able to explain to him is rather inadequate, for I do not believe that he himself understands it very well. So I shall have to try to make myself understood quite clearly to X and tell him exactly and simply what it is you need. The word transformation is too abstract. Each mantra has a very specific actionat least I believe soand I must be able to tell X in a concrete way the exact powers or capacities you are now seeking, and the general goal or the particular results required. Then he will find the mantra or mantras that apply.
My explanations will have to be simple, for X speaks English with difficulty, thus subtleties are out of the question. (I am teaching him a little English while he is teaching me Sanskrit, and we manage to understand each other rather well all the same. He understands more than he can speak.)
I do not want to mention this to Swami, as X is not very happy about the way Swami seizes upon every occasion to appropriate things, and particularly mantras (I will explain this to you when we meet again). It is especially the way he says I. Nothing very seriousit is Swamis bad side, though he has good ones too. You know that, however.
So I would like to speak to X knowledgeably, in a very precise way, and I am waiting only for you to tell me what I should say. The thing is too important to be approached lightly and vaguely.
0 1960-09-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Later on, when Sri Aurobindo left his body, I said to myself, If only I knew what he had known, it would be easier! So when Swami and later X came, I thought, I am going to take advantage of this opportunity. I had written to Swami that I was working on transforming the cells of the body and that I had noticed the work was going faster with Xs influence. So it was understood that X would help when he came thats how things began, and this idea has remained with X. But I have raced on I dont wait. Ive raced on, Ive gone like wildfire. And now the situation is reversed. What I wanted to find out, I found out. I experienced what I wanted to experience, but he is still He is very kind, actually, he wants really to help me. So, when I identified with him the other day during our meditation, I realized that he wanted to give silence, control and perfect peace to the physical mind. My own trick, if you will, is to have as little relationship with the physical mind as possible, to go up above and stay therethis (Mother indicates her forehead), silent, motionless, turned upwards, while That (gesture above the head) sees, acts, knows, decidesall is done from there. Only there can you feel at ease.
Along the way, I once went down into this physical mind for awhile to try to set it right, to organize it a little (it was done rather quickly, I didnt stay there long). So when I went inside X, I saw It was rather curious, for its the opposite of the method we follow. In his material consciousness (physical and vital), he has trained himself to be impersonal, open, limitless, in communication with all the universal forces. In the physical mind, silence, immobility. But in the speculative mind, the one there at the very top of the head what an organization, phew! All the tradition in its most superb organization, but such a ri-gi-dity! And it had a pretty quality of light, a silver blueVERY pretty. Oh, it was very calm, wonderfully calm and quiet and still. But what a ceiling it had!the outer form resembled rigid cubes. Everything inside was beautiful, but that There was a very large cube right at the top, I recall, bordered by a purple line, which is a line of powerall this was quite luminous. It looked like a pyramid; the smaller cubes formed a kind of base, the lower part of which faded into something cloudy, and then this passed imperceptibly downwards to a more material realm, or in other words, the physical mind. The cube on top was the largest and most luminous, and the least yieldingeven inflexible, you could say. The others were somewhat less defined, and at the bottom it was very blurred. But up at the top!thats where I wanted to go, right to the top.
0 1961-06-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This is all Xs work. The most unexpected people, people youd think would rather be cursed than come to a place like this, are coming from everywhere, from the most diverse milieus the most materialistic materialists, fanatical communists, as well as all sorts of sannyasis, bhikkus, Swamis, priestsoh! People who previously were not at all they werent so much disinterested as actually displeased with the Ashram.
We have a disciple here who returns to his birthplace from time to time, and after the first year X began to do his puja to get people interested in the Ashram, he said it was extraordinary. He had previously been looked at askance and had to argue with people, but now everyone came to call on him as soon as he arrived! He wrote that he was completely astonished (he wasnt aware of Xs work); hundreds of people came to ask him to hold huge meetings; sadhus, monks and priests came to him for information on the Ashram. Things have developed so rapidly and completely that they now have some land where they have built a center and hold meetings.
0 1963-03-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That blue force, that blue light, I had known it for a long time, but without defining it: it was a power of consciousnessa POWERthe power of consciousness in Matter. I knew exactly what it was when I came in contact with X1 (with the Swami first, then with X). Since then, I had been able to tell without doubt whether someone I was seeing was practicing Tantrism or not. And now when I see a photograph, its the same thing! Yesterday, for example, I was shown somebodys photo, and I had the same impression of force; I didnt say anything, I asked what the man did (maybe he is a businessman in life, I dont remember), but then they gave me a letter from him in which he wrote that for a few years he had been trying to follow the Tantric method of yogait amused me! It was plain in his photo!
I came across a man who had that blue light but I found him rather formidable. He looked after all the religious rites and priests of B.s state. He came here and asked to see me. I saw him on a December 9 (I think) when I paid a visit to the estate at Aryankuppam. I was walking in the gardens when suddenly I felt something pulling at meand none too gently! I turned around and saw a tall man, standing and staring at me. So (I didnt know who he was, no one had told me), I stared back and simply answered his impudence! And pfft! it just fell off. I was surprised. Later (I had not yet been told who he was), he asked to see me. When he entered the room, I felt I felt a solid being. I dont know how to define it, I had never before felt it in a human beingsolid. As solid as rock. Extraordinarily solidcoagulated, an edifice. And quite powerful, I must say. Not like an arrow (gesture upward) but all around him. Then it was very funny (because theres no doubt he must have had an awesome effect on people instantly, without a word or anything), but I answered in my own way, with something else!
0 1963-08-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, I remember, one day (it impressed me much), the Swami told me, But you should imagine this, imagine that.
Oh!
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I had that tendency very strongly in the past; thats what I called storytellingeverything, everything became stories: all the work, all that had to be done. But I stopped it completely, completely, as a dangerous thingit gives a great material power (thats probably why the Swami asked you to do it), what it gives is a material power, but its VERY bad, it falsifies all that comes from above.
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0 1963-09-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was a time when I intervened (it was the time of the Swamis activities and all that). It was over you at that time. But lately I havent seen anything specialattacks do come periodically along with the suggestion of all kinds of catastrophic possibilities: nothing more particular to you than to others. Its part of the work, I dont pay any attention to it.
But as for a quite personal threat to you, things seem much better now than they were two years ago.
0 1963-12-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the reaction on the body was painful, as it was the first time. The first time (according to X and the Swami), it was supposed to kill meit didnt even make me seriously ill, but it had a very unpleasant effect. I told you at the time that it was a mantra intended to drain you of all your blood; Ive seen several examples of people who died in that way: it was found afterwards to be the result of a mantric formation. In my case, all it succeeded in doing was to make me sick, as if everything came out I vomited terribly. Then there was something pulling me and I absolutely had to go my consciousness told me I had to go and see someone (I was all alone in my bathroom when it happened), a particular person whom I had to go and see; and when I opened the door, Z was there, waiting to prepare my bath, but I didnt see him at all and I absolutely wanted to go somewhere, into the other room, so I pushed against him, thinking, Whats this obstacle in my way? And he thought I was fainting on him! It caused quite a to-do.
I was completely in trance, you see. I was walking, but completely in trance.
0 1966-11-30, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, a great many. I have been told this several times, but naturally There are a great many of those so-called Swamis and sadhus who are quite simply tricksters, but they have a rudimentary occult knowledge in a field where, unfortunately, it takes very little knowledge to be able to do a lot of mischief. There are lots of themnot one or two, but lots. And I know people who went and saw them, who begged them and tried to make them intervene [against Mother]. They have turned either against people around me or against myself. Not many against myself, but one or two of them think they are the lords of the world, and therefore completely immune, so they have tried, but It can cause a little friction, thats all, its nothing. But when its directed towards people around me, its more difficult to counter because there is always theres always a slight response. They arent pure enough. Then it gives me a lot of trouble. Thats what happened last time, it was towards all those around me: it gave me a lot of work.
With C. [Mothers attendant, who had fallen sick] I did think it was something of the sort, because two days beforeh and I was warned about a formation: a formation which came with a grimacing face and told me, Its over and done with all C.s fine work. You know, they are very small consciousnesses with a big spitefulness, and also some rage or otherwhy? Towards something they dont understand. And then, they use a rather rudimentary occult knowledge. I did what had to be done, but in the beginning I didnt think it was exactly magic: there were lots of reasons. Then, yesterday, C. himself had a dream in which someone was chasing after him (someone or something, he didnt know exactly what), and he ran and ran to escape. He ran till he woke up, and he woke up completely out of breath, as exhausted as if he had really run. Then I said to myself that what I had thought was correct.
0 1967-04-05, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If they still need to oppose one thing to another (because that wretched mind doesnt work when its not given an opposition), if they need an opposition, let them take the opposition between Truth and Falsehood, its somewhat better (I am not saying its perfect, but its somewhat better). But then, in all things Falsehood and Truth are there, mixed, everywhere; in the so-called spiritual life, in the sannyasins, the Swamis, those who think they represent divine life on earth, all that, there is also that mixture of Falsehood and Truth.
It would be better not to make a split.
0 1968-10-26, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In a letter (see Cent. Ed., vol. 26, p. 352-353), Sri Aurobindo told the story of a yogi who could prolong his life at will (and lived for more than 200 years), but who kept the same toothache till the end, without ever being able to cure it. He was Swami Brahmananda, who, one day in the 1900s, told a disciple of his (Sardar Mazumdar), "As for the tooth, I have suffered from it since the days of Bhao Girdi," that is, since 1761.
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0 1968-11-13, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its teeming with Swamis, with this and that. So what can the Truth do in all that?
(Mother goes into contemplation)
0 1969-03-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then he sends another note. In Rome they had the visit of Swami Z, and our friend P.L. had lunch with him (because they took the Swami to see the Pope, he had an audience with the Pope), they had lunch together and, writes Msgr. R., The Swami declared himself very happy about the audience with the Pope. He was able to give one of his books to the Holy Father, who told him (in English) that he liked India very much, that he thanked him for his spiritual work undertaken for the good of humanity, and encouraged him to pursue his mission. The Pope gave him a papal medal, and even added that he had great difficulty in developing his spirituality owing to his present entourage.
Oh, this is interesting! Its interesting.
There are a few more lines: The Swami is convinced that if the Pope werent obliged to remain in Rome to fulfill the functions imposed on him, he would surely go to India in search of illumination.
Its interesting.
0 1969-10-18, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, because after his realization, he has been very influenced by the teachings of the Swamis, for whom its always, You are That.2
Theyre wrong.
0 1970-07-11, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Mother may throw light on the nature and extent of the transformation the Swami had in the last part of his life. The Swami often declared affirming the transformation and deathlessness of his body by the power of what he calls Arut Perum Joti, the infinite or vast Grace-Light of the Divine. He also made the forecast and promise around the year 1870, that the supreme Divine would come soon to the earth for establishing his direct rule of Grace-Light (which the Swami also called as the Truth-Light) when a new race of people would arise defying disease, ageing and death.1
Its interesting.
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Mother, one last thing, a question asked by the person who wrote the letter: he. asks whether the vast Grace-Light or Truth-Light the Swami mentions is the supramental light?
Which light?
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"The Swami dematerialized his body in January or February 1874, leaving a promise that he would return at the time of the God of the vast Grace-Light."
Sri Aurobindo writes this about the chakra at the base of the spine: "The Muladhar is the centre of the physical consciousness proper, and all below in the body is the sheer physical, which as it goes downward becomes increasingly subconscient, but the real seat of the subconscient is below the body, as the real seat of the higher consciousness (superconscient) is above the body."
0 1970-07-22, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have something about this Tamil Swami who had that experience of the bodys transformation. You remember this Swami Ramalingam who had that vision of the Grace-Light? You made a few remarks, part of which I passed on to the person who had asked the question. And Ive raised a storm.
Oh, why?
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The translation of Swami Ramalingams experiences was read out to Mother, and she does not doubt their au thenticity; she particularly liked the manner in which the Swami called that light Grace-Light, and she said it corresponds to her own experience. She remarked that over the ages, and even now, it is quite likely that a number of individuals, known or unknown, have had similar experiences. The only difference is that at present, instead of an individual possibility, there is a collective possibility that is precisely Sri Aurobindos and Mothers work: to establish, as a terrestrial fact and a possibility for everyone, the supramental consciousness or Grace-Light as Swami Ramalingam called it.
Satprem
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Dearest Mother, regarding certain translations of poems of Swami Ramalingam by his disciple T., you answered him through Satprem in such a way that he was led to equate Ramalingams Grace-Light and the supramental Consciousness.
Yes, I wouldnt have done that. So hes furious!
1.01 - Meeting the Master - Authors first meeting, December 1918, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
All the energies of the leaders were taken up by the freedom movement. Only a few among them attempted to see beyond the horizon of political freedom some ideal of human perfection; for, after all, freedom is not the ultimate goal but a condition for the expression of the cultural Spirit of India. In Swami Shraddhananda, Pandit Madanmohan Malavia, Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi to name some leaders we see the double aspect of the inspiration. Among all the visions of perfection of the human spirit on earth, I found the synthetic and integral vision of Sri Aurobindo the most rational and the most satisfying. It meets the need of the individual and collective life of man today. It is the international form of the fundamental elements of Indian culture. It is, Dr. S. K. Maitra says, the message which holds out hope in a world of despair.
This aspect of Sri Aurobindo's vision attracted me as much as the natural affinity which I had felt on seeing him. I found on making a serious study of the Arya that it led me to very rational conclusions with regard to the solutions of the deepest problems of life. I opened correspondence with him and in 1916, with his permission, began to translate the Arya into Gujarati.
1.02 - Pranayama, Mantrayoga, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
There are many other mantras. Sri Sabapaty Swami gives a particular one for each of the Cakkras. But let the student select one mantra and master it thoroughly.
You have not even begun to master a mantra until it continues unbroken through sleep. This is much easier than it sounds.
1.02 - SADHANA PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
control of the sense organs. Swami Vivekananda has not commented
upon this sutra
1.04 - KAI VALYA PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
3 Swami Vivekananda does not comment on the sutra which is 16 th sutra
in most versions of Patanjali Yoga Sutra. This sutra is: n
1.052 - Yoga Practice - A Series of Positive Steps, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Inasmuch as our external relationships which constitute the outward form of the relative self have become part and parcel of our experience, they are inseparable from our consciousness. It requires a careful peeling out of these layers of self by very intelligent means. The lowest attachment, or the least of attachments, should be tackled first. The intense attachments should not be tackled in the beginning. We have many types of attachment there may be fifty, sixty, a hundred but all of them are not of the same intensity. There are certain vital spots in us which cannot be touched. They are very vehement, and it is better not to touch them in the beginning. But there are some milder aspects which can be tackled first, and the gradation of these attachments should be understood properly. How many attachments are there, and how many affections? What are the loves that are harassing the mind and causing agony? Make a list of them privately in your own diary, if you like. They say Swami Rama Tirtha used to do that. He would make a list of all the desires and find out how many of them had been fulfilled: What is the condition? Where am I standing? and so on. This is a kind of spiritual diary that you can create for yourself: How many loves are there which are troubling me? How many things do I like in this world?
The percentage of attachment that you have towards these things also has to be properly understood. What is the percentage of love for A, B, C, D, etc.? In a gradational order, tabulate the objects of sense or the conceptual objects, whatever they be, and note the degree of attachment involved in every particular case. Take the least one, the simplest, as the first. If you have a desire to sleep on a Dunlop cushion well, you may think over this matter. Is a Dunlop cushion very necessary? I can have a cotton mattress instead. This is not a very serious attachment, though it is an attachment. There are well-to-do aristocrats who may like to sleep on Dunlop beds, Dunlop pillows, have air-conditioning, and so on. These are desires, but they are not so vehement. There are other desires which cannot be touched immediately, and they have to be tackled later on.
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
Radha, Swami S. (1978). Kundalini yoga for the west. Boston: Shambala.
Rapoport, J. (1989). The boy who couldnt stop washing: The experience and treatment of OCD. New
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Radha, Swami S. (1978). pp. 16-20.
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1.07 - Incarnate Human Gods, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
of Swami Bhaskaranandaji Saraswati, and looked uncommonly like the
late Cardinal Manning, only more ingenuous. His eyes beamed with
1.07 - THE MASTER AND VIJAY GOSWAMI, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"Reasoning and discrimination vanish after the attainment of God and communion with Him in samdhi. How long does a man reason and discriminate? As long as he is conscious of the manifold, as long as he is aware of the universe, of embodied beings, of 'I' and 'you'. He becomes silent when he is truly aware of Unity. This was the case with Trailanga Swami.
"Have you watched a feast given to the brahmins? At first there is a great uproar. But the noise lessens as their stomachs become more and more filled with food. When the last course of curd and sweets is served, one hears only the sound 'soop, soop' as they scoop up the curd in their hands. There is no other sound. Next is the stage of sleep-samdhi. There is no more uproar.
1.08 - Summary, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Raja Yoga, by Swami Vivekananda.
The Shiva Sanhita, or the Hathayoga Pradipika.
1.08 - The Gods of the Veda - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
There has already been, indeed, a local movement towards the rehabilitation of the Veda. Swami Dayananda, the founder of the Arya Samaj, preached a monotheistic religion founded on a new interpretation of the sacred hymns. But this important attempt, successful & vigorous in the Panjab, is not likely to comm and acceptance among the more subtle races of the south & east. It was based like the European rendering on a system of philology,the Nirukta of Yaska used by the scholastic ingenuity & robust faith of Dayananda to justify conclusions far-reaching & even extravagant, to which it is difficult to assent unless we are offered stronger foundations.Moreover, by rejecting the authority of all later Scriptures and scouting even the Upanishads because they transcend the severity of his monotheistic teaching, Dayananda cut asunder the unity of Hindu religion even more fatally than the Europeans & by the slenderness of vision & the poverty of spiritual contents, the excessive simplicity of doctrine farther weakened the authority of this version for the Indian intellect. He created a sect & a rendering, but failed to rehabilitate to the educated mind in India the authority of the Vedas. Nevertheless, he put his finger on the real clue, the true principle by which Veda can yet be made to render up its long-guarded secret. A Nirukta, based on a wider knowledge of the Aryan tongues than Dayananda possessed, more scientific than the conjectural philology of the Europeans, is the first condition of this great recovery. The second is a sympathy & flexibility of intelligence capable of accepting passively & moulding itself to the mentality of the men of this remote epoch.
If indeed the philology of the Europeans were an exact science or its conclusions inevitable results from indisputable premises, there would be no room for any reopening of the subject. But the failure of comparative philology to develop a sound scientific basis & to create a true science of language has been one of the conspicuous intellectual disappointments of the nineteenth century. There can be no denial of that failure. This so-called science is scouted by scientific minds and even the possibility of an etymological science has been disputed. The extravagances of the philological sun myth weavers have been checked by a later method which prefers the evidence of facts to the evidence of nouns & adjectives. The later ethnological theories ignore the conclusions & arguments of the philologists. The old theory of Aryan, Semite, Dravidian & Turanian races has everywhere been challenged and is everywhere breached or rejected. The philologists have indeed established some useful identities and established a few rules of phonetical modification and detrition. But the rest is hypothesis and plausible conjecture. The capacity of brilliant conjecture, volatile inference and an ingenious imagination have been more useful to the modern Sanscrit scholar than rigorous research, scientific deduction or patient and careful generalisation. We are therefore at liberty even on the ground of European science & knowledge to hesitate before the conclusions of philological scholarship.
1.09 - ADVICE TO THE BRAHMOS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Trailanga Swami and Bhskarnanda
MASTER: "So you have been to Benares. Did you see any holy men there?"
MANILAL: "Yes, sir. I paid my respects to Trailanga Swami, Bhaskarananda, and others."
MASTER: "Tell us something about them."
MANILAL: "Trailanga Swami is living in the same temple where he lived before-on the Manikarnika Ghat; near the Benimadhav Minaret. People say he was formerly in a more exalted spiritual state. He could perform many miracles. Now he has lost much of that power."
MASTER: "That is the criticism of worldly people."
MANILAL: "Trailanga Swami keeps a strict vow of silence. Unlike him, Bhaskarananda is friendly with all."
MASTER: "Did you have any conversation with Bhaskarananda?"
1.09 - A System of Vedic Psychology, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Is there or can there be a system of Vedic psychology? To us who are dominated today by the prestige of European thought and scholarship, the Vedas are a document of primitive barbarism, the ancient Vedanta a mass of sublime but indisciplined speculations. We may admit the existence of many deep psychological intuitions in the Upanishads; we do not easily allow to an age which we have been taught to regard as great but primitive and undeveloped the possibility of a profound and reasoned system in a subject in which Europe with all her modern knowledge has been unable to develop a real science. I believe that this current view of our Vedic forefa thers is entirely erroneous and arises from our application to them of a false system of psychological and intellectual values. Europe has formed certain views about the Veda & the Vedanta, and succeeded in imposing them on the Indian intellect. The ease with which this subjugation has been effected, is not surprising; for the mere mass of labour of Vedic scholarship has been imposing, its ingenuity of philological speculation is well calculated to dazzle the uncritical mind and the audacity & self-confidence with which it constructs its theories conceals the conjectural uncertainty of their foundations. When a hundred world famous scholars cry out, This is so, it is hard indeed for the average mind and even minds above the average, but inexpert in these special subjects, not to acquiesce. Nor has there been in India itself any corresponding labour of scholarship, diligence & sound enquiry which could confront the brilliant and hazardous generalisations of modern Sanscrit scholarship with the results of a more perfect system and a more penetrating vision. The only attempt in that direction the attempt of Swami Dayanandahas not been of a kind to generate confidence in the dispassionate judgment of posterity which must be the final arbiter of these disputes; for not only was that great Pundit and vigorous disputant unequipped with the wide linguistic & philological scholarship necessary for his work, but his method was rapid, impatient, polemical, subservient to certain fixed religious ideas rather than executed in the calm, disinterested freedom of the careful and impartial thinker and scholar. Judgment has passed on the Veda & Vedanta by default in favour of the scholastic criticism of Europe which has alone been represented in the court of modern opinion.
Nevertheless a time must come when the Indian mind will shake off the paralysis that has fallen upon it, cease to think or hold opinions at second & third hand & reassert its right to judge and inquire with a perfect freedom into the meaning of its own Scriptures. When that day comes, we shall, I think, discover that the imposing fabric of Vedic theory is based upon nothing more sound or lasting than a foundation of loosely massed conjectures. We shall question many established philological myths,the legend, for instance, of an Aryan invasion of India from the north, the artificial & unreal distinction of Aryan & Dravidian which an erroneous philology has driven like a wedge into the unity of the homogeneous Indo-Afghan race; the strange dogma of a henotheistic Vedic naturalism; the ingenious & brilliant extravagances of the modern sun & star myth weavers, and many another hasty & attractive generalisation which, after a brief period of unquestioning acceptance by the easily-persuaded intellect of mankind, is bound to depart into the limbo of forgotten theories. We attach an undue importance & value to the ephemeral conclusions of European philology, because it is systematic in its errors and claims to be a science.We forget or do not know that the claims of philology to a scientific value & authority are scouted by European scientists; the very word, Philologe, is a byword of scorn to serious scientific writers in Germany, the temple of philology. One of the greatest of modern philologists & modern thinkers, Ernest Renan, was finally obliged after a lifetime of hope & earnest labour to class the chief preoccupation of his life as one of the petty conjectural sciencesin other words no science at all, but a system of probabilities & guesses. Beyond one or two generalisations of the mutations followed by words in their progress through the various Aryan languages and a certain number of grammatical rectifications & rearrangements, resulting in a less arbitrary view of linguistic relations, modern philology has discovered no really binding law or rule for its own guidance. It has fixed one or two sure signposts; the rest is speculation and conjecture.We are not therefore bound to worship at the shrines of Comparative Science & Comparative Mythology & offer up on these dubious altars the Veda & Vedanta. The question of Vedic truth & the meaning of Veda still lies open. If Sayanas interpretation of Vedic texts is largely conjectural and likely often to be mistaken & unsound, the European interpretation can lay claim to no better certainty. The more lively ingenuity and imposing orderliness of the European method of conjecture may be admitted; but ingenuity & orderliness, though good helps to an enquiry, are in themselves no guarantee of truth and a conjecture does not cease to be a conjecture, because its probability or possibility is laboriously justified or brilliantly supported. It is on the basis of a purely conjectural translation of the Vedas that Europe presents us with these brilliant pictures of Vedic religion, Vedic society, Vedic civilisation which we so eagerly accept and unquestioningly reproduce. For we take them as the form of an unquestionable truth; in reality, they are no more than brilliantly coloured hypotheses,works of imagination, not drawings from the life.
1.1.05 - The Siddhis, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I do not wish to argue the question of the existence or nonexistence of Yogic siddhis; for it is not with me a question of debate, or of belief and disbelief, since I know by daily experience that they exist. I am concerned rather with their exact nature and utility. And here one is met by the now fashionable habit, among people presuming to be Vedantic and spiritual, of a denunciation and holy horror of the Yogic siddhis. They are, it seems, Tantric, dangerous, immoral, delusive as conjuring tricks, a stumbling block in the path of the soul's liberation. Swami Vivekananda did much to encourage this attitude by his eagerness to avoid all mention of them at the outset of his mission in order not to
The Siddhis
1.11 - WITH THE DEVOTEES AT DAKSHINEWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"Trailanga Swami once said that because a man reasons he is conscious of multiplicity, of variety. Attaining samadhi, one gives up the body in twenty-one days. Spiritual consciousness is not possible without the awakening of the Kundalini.
"A man who has realized God shows certain characteristics. He becomes like a child or a madman, or an inert thing or a ghoul. Further, he is firmly convinced that he is the machine and God is its Operator, that God alone is the Doer and all others are His instruments. As some Sikh devotees once said to me, even the leaf moves because of God's will. One should be aware that everything happens by the will of Rma. The weaver said: 'The price of the cloth, by the will of Rma, is one rupee six annas. By the will of Rma the robbery was committed. By the will of Rma the robbers were arrested. By the will of Rma I too was arrested by the police. And at last, by the will of Rma, I was released.' "
1.12 - The Divine Work, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
a remarkable passage in a letter of Swami Vivekananda. "I have
lost all wish for my salvation," wrote the great Vedantin, "may I
1.200-1.224 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Ramakrishna Swami, a long-resident disciple, asked Maharshi the meaning of Twaiyarunachala Sarvam, a stanza in The Five Hymns.
Maharshi explained it in detail, saying that the universe is like a painting on a screen - the screen being the Red Hill, Arunachala. That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God
1.240 - 1.300 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
M.: They are given to the Swami, whoever he may be. But the body is considered the Swami in the world. That body is this. It reduces itself to myself.
Q.: In that case the attachment to property is now renewed. Is it so?
1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
M.: They are given to the Swami, whoever he may be. But the body is considered the Swami in the world. That body is this. It reduces itself to myself.
Q.: In that case the attachment to property is now renewed. Is it so?
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Mudaliar Swami, son of the lady who brings bhiksha every day to Sri
Bhagavan, related the following interesting incident:
During the time Sri Bhagavan was staying in Virupaksha Cave, Sri Bhagavan and Mudaliar Swami were walking together behind the Skandasramam site.
There was a huge rock about 15 feet high; it was a cleft, a girl (a shepherdess) was standing there crying. Sri Bhagavan asked the reason of her sorrow.
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Bhagavan descended into the cleft, took the sheep on his shoulders, climbed up to the surface and delivered the sheep to her. Mudaliar Swami says that it was a very remarkable feat for any human being.
Talk 362.
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The same sannyasi visitor, Swami Lokesananda, asked about samadhi.
M.: (1) Holding on to Reality is samadhi.
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D.: Swami Vivekananda says that a spiritual Guru can transfer spirituality substantially to the disciple.
M.: Is there a substance to be transferred? Transfer means eradication of the sense of being the disciple. The master does it. Not that the man was something at one time and metamorphosed later into another.
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Sri Bhagavan was living in Mulaippal Tirtha. There was a Jada Swami living in the neighbourhood (Mamarathu Guhai). This man, who was then about 8 years of age, used to play pranks with all, including Sri
Bhagavan.
One day he went to Maharshi and said that Jada Swami wanted a bucket. Without waiting for permission, he took away the bucket.
Palani Swami the attendant, was not there. So Sri Bhagavan followed the boy to Jada Swamis place. Before Bhagavan reached the place the boy had told the other that Brahmana Swami had sent him a bucket.
Jada Swami was wondering why! In a few minutes Maharshi reached the place and learnt what had passed. So he raised His hand to give a slap to the boy but the mind would not yield to slapping. But He argued within Himself and determined that the urchin should be slapped and so he did it.
Talk 410.
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A resident devotee, Kunju Swami, related an observation of Sri
Maharshi after the robbery in the Asramam in 1923.
1.26 - FESTIVAL AT ADHARS HOUSE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"There are two classes of paramahamsas, one affirming the formless Reality and the other affirming God with form. Trailanga Swami believed in the formless Reality.
Paramahamsas like him care for their own good alone; they feel satisfied if they themselves attain the goal.
1.300 - 1.400 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Mudaliar Swami, son of the lady who brings bhiksha every day to Sri
Bhagavan, related the following interesting incident:
During the time Sri Bhagavan was staying in Virupaksha Cave, Sri Bhagavan and Mudaliar Swami were walking together behind the Skandasramam site.
There was a huge rock about 15 feet high; it was a cleft, a girl (a shepherdess) was standing there crying. Sri Bhagavan asked the reason of her sorrow.
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Bhagavan descended into the cleft, took the sheep on his shoulders, climbed up to the surface and delivered the sheep to her. Mudaliar Swami says that it was a very remarkable feat for any human being.
Talk 362.
--
The same sannyasi visitor, Swami Lokesananda, asked about samadhi.
M.: (1) Holding on to Reality is samadhi.
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D.: Swami Vivekananda says that a spiritual Guru can transfer spirituality substantially to the disciple.
M.: Is there a substance to be transferred? Transfer means eradication of the sense of being the disciple. The master does it. Not that the man was something at one time and metamorphosed later into another.
1.400 - 1.450 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Sri Bhagavan was living in Mulaippal Tirtha. There was a Jada Swami living in the neighbourhood (Mamarathu Guhai). This man, who was then about 8 years of age, used to play pranks with all, including Sri
Bhagavan.
One day he went to Maharshi and said that Jada Swami wanted a bucket. Without waiting for permission, he took away the bucket.
Palani Swami the attendant, was not there. So Sri Bhagavan followed the boy to Jada Swami's place. Before Bhagavan reached the place the boy had told the other that Brahmana Swami had sent him a bucket.
Jada Swami was wondering why! In a few minutes Maharshi reached the place and learnt what had passed. So he raised His hand to give a slap to the boy but the mind would not yield to slapping. But He argued within Himself and determined that the urchin should be slapped and so he did it.
Talk 410.
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A resident devotee, Kunju Swami, related an observation of Sri
Maharshi after the robbery in the Asramam in 1923.
1.439, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
A Swami asked: I feel toothache. Is it only a thought?
M.: Yes.
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Seek the company of saints by all means; but do not remain indefinitely with them. The adage, familiarity breeds contempt, applies even to their case, writes Swami Ramdas in the course of an article in The Vision.
Spiritual growth is, no doubt, largely dependent on suitable association.
--
Sri Bhagavan read out a stanza The Black Sun from the anniversary number of The Vision, written by Swami Bharatananda.
After a few minutes, Miss J. asked: One gathers from the stanza that one should keep on meditating until one gets merged in the state of consciousness. Do you think it right?
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A Swami belonging to Sri Ramakrishna Mission had a very interesting conversation with Sri Bhagavan in the course of which Sri Bhagavan observed:
M.: Avidya (ignorance) is the obstacle for knowing your true nature even at the present moment.
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The Swami of Sri Ramakrishna Mission had more questions to ask:
Swamiji, I went up the hill to see the asramas in which you lived in your youth. I have also read your life. May I know if you did not then feel that there is God to whom you should pray or that you should practise something in order to reach this state?
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The following is taken from the diary of Annamalai Swami, a good devotee of Sri Bhagavan and resident of Sri Ramanasramam:
The Teachings of Sri Ramana Bhagavan.
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This was in answer to the Swami who wanted to retire into a cave for practising meditation.
(2) He asked about sannyas. Should not a man renounce everything in order that he might get Liberation?
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Sri Bhagavan turned to the Swami and said that there was the reply to his question.
This state is called Bhakti, Yoga and Karma.
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When Sri Bhagavan was going up the hill, the Swami asked: Does the closing or the opening of the eyes make any difference during dhyana?
M.: If you strike on a wall with a rubber-ball and you stand at a distance, the ball rebounds and runs back to you. If you stand near the wall, the ball rebounds and runs away from you. Even if the eyes are closed, the mind follows thoughts.
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Somasundara Swami, a long standing devotee, asked: There is akasa in a mirror and it reflects images. How are these contained in the mirror?
M.: Objects remain in space. Objects and space are together reflected in the mirror. Just as the things are found in space, so they are in the reflection also. The mirror is itself thin. How can these objects be contained in its compass?
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missing. Then He called for the attendant, Madhava Swami, and
asked: Madhava, did anyone remove the sparrows nest?
1.450 - 1.500 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
A Swami asked: I feel toothache. Is it only a thought?
M.: Yes.
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"Seek the company of saints by all means; but do not remain indefinitely with them. The adage, familiarity breeds contempt, applies even to their case," writes Swami Ramdas in the course of an article in The Vision.
"Spiritual growth is, no doubt, largely dependent on suitable association.
--
Sri Bhagavan read out a stanza "The Black Sun" from the anniversary number of The Vision, written by Swami Bharatananda.
After a few minutes, Miss J. asked: One gathers from the stanza that one should keep on meditating until one gets merged in the state of consciousness. Do you think it right?
--
A Swami belonging to Sri Ramakrishna Mission had a very interesting conversation with Sri Bhagavan in the course of which Sri Bhagavan observed:
M.: Avidya (ignorance) is the obstacle for knowing your true nature even at the present moment.
--
The Swami of Sri Ramakrishna Mission had more questions to ask:
Swamiji, I went up the hill to see the asramas in which you lived in your youth. I have also read your life. May I know if you did not then feel that there is God to whom you should pray or that you should practise something in order to reach this state?
1.45 - Unserious Conduct of a Pupil, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
What you need, in the way of a Guru, is some fat, greasy Swami, who would not allow you to enter or leave his presence without permission, or address him without being formally invited to do so. After seven years at menial household drudgeries, you might with luck be allowed to listen to some of his improving discourse.
Pretentious humbug is the only appeal to which you can be relied on to respond. Praxiteles would repel you, unless you covered the marble completely with glittering gew-gaws, tinsel finery, sham jewels from the tray of Autolycus! Yet it was precisely because you were sick of all this that you came to me at all.
1.550 - 1.600 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Somasundara Swami, a long standing devotee, asked: There is akasa in a mirror and it reflects images. How are these contained in the mirror?
M.: Objects remain in space. Objects and space are together reflected in the mirror. Just as the things are found in space, so they are in the reflection also. The mirror is itself thin. How can these objects be contained in its compass?
1f.lovecraft - Out of the Aeons, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
called himself Swami Chandraputra. This fellow was unbelievably
erudite in occult lore and seemed profoundly and solemnly moved by the
1f.lovecraft - Through the Gates of the Silver Key, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
features. He had announced himself as the Swami Chandraputra, an adept
from Benares with important information to give; and both de Marigny
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friend herethe Swami Chandraputraa memory-sketch of some of those
letters, and also a photostatic copy of the Carter parchment. He
--
For the first time Swami Chandraputra spoke in his queerly alien voice.
Gentlemen, there is more to this matter than you think. Mr. Aspinwall
--
At last, continued the Swami, the swaying and the suggestion of
chanting ceased, the lambent nimbuses around the now drooping and
--
The time-units spent on Yaddith, croaked the Swamiwhose laboured voice
was beginning to shew signs of fatiguemade a tale in themselves which
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had instinctively fled, the odd voice of Swami Chandraputra grew
hoarser still.
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have received letters from the Swami which tally with his account.
As he paused, old Mr. Phillips ventured a word.
Swami Chandraputra spoke of proofs. I, too, recognise much that is
significant in this story, and I have myself had many oddly
corroborative letters from the Swami during the last two years; but
some of these statements are very extreme. Is there not something
--
At last the impassive-faced Swami replied, slowly and hoarsely, and
drawing an object from the pocket of his loose coat as he spoke.
--
The Swamis features, abnormally placid, did not change; but the
remote, irisless black eyes behind them blazed dangerously. He spoke
--
Stop! The hoarse, oddly alien voice of the Swami held a tone beyond
all mere earthly fright. I told you there was another form of proof
--
As he reached forward, the Swami seized his hand with one of his own
clumsily mittened members, evoking a curious cry of mixed pain and
--
Turning quickly to the shuffling Swamis receding back, de Marigny saw
one of the great white mittens drop listlessly off a dangling arm. The
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estate is still unsettled. The Boston address from which one Swami
Chandraputra sent inquiries to various mystics in 19303132 was
--
Reason proclaims the Swami a criminal with designs on Randolph
Carters estate. But the autopsy said that Aspinwall had died of shock.
1.lla - I traveled a long way seeking God, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Swami Muktananda Original Language Kashmiri I traveled a long way seeking God, but when I finally gave up and turned back, there He was, within me! O Lalli! Now why do you wander like a beggar? Make some effort, and He will grant you a vision of Himself in the form of bliss in your heart. [2319.jpg] -- from Lalleshwari: Spiritual Poems by a Great Siddha Yogini, Translated by Swami Muktananda <
1.lla - O infinite Consciousness, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Swami Muktananda Original Language Kashmiri O infinite Consciousness, brimming with elixir, You live within my body, and I worship only You. I do not care if I die, take birth, or pass into some other state. These things are so ordinary now. [2319.jpg] -- from Lalleshwari: Spiritual Poems by a Great Siddha Yogini, Translated by Swami Muktananda <
1.lla - When Siddhanath applied lotion to my eyes, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Swami Muktananda Original Language Kashmiri When Siddhanath applied lotion to my eyes, the cataracts that covered them dissolved. I saw an astonishing sight. Wherever I looked and whatever I beheld, I saw my own Self, I saw God. Wherever I looked, I saw my own Self! O Lalli! This is the true seeing. [2319.jpg] -- from Lalleshwari: Spiritual Poems by a Great Siddha Yogini, Translated by Swami Muktananda <
1.rt - My Pole Star, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
Originally transformed into a devotional song or brahmo sangit from a small dedicatory verse addressed to the poets notun-bouthan (new sister-in-law), Kadambaridevi, the wife of his elder brother Jyotirindranath, it is now classified as a love song. Young Narendranath Dutta, a reputed singer who became Swami Vivekananda later in his life, once sang this song under the direction of the poet himself. Transcreation by Kumud Biswas.
Translated by Kumud Biswas
1.snk - The Shattering of Illusion (Moha Mudgaram from The Crest Jewel of Discrimination), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood Who is thy wife? Who is thy son? The ways of this world are strange indeed. Whose are thou? Whence art thou come? Vast is thy ignorance, my beloved. Therefore ponder these things and worship the Lord. Behold the folly of Man: In childhood busy with his toys, In youth bewitched by love, In age bowed down with cares -- And always unmindful of the Lord! The hours fly, the seasons roll, life ebbs, But the breeze of hope blows continually in his heart. Birth brings death, death brings rebirth: This evil needs no proof. Where then O Man, is thy happiness? This life trembles in the balance Like water on a lotus-leaf -- And yet the sage can show us, in an instant, How to bridge this sea of change. When the body is wrinkled, when the hair turns gray, When the gums are toothless, and the old man's staff Shakes like a reed beneath his weight, The cup of his desire is still full. Thy son may bring thee suffering, Thy wealth is no assurance of heaven: Therefore be not vain of thy wealth, Or of thy family, or of thy youth -- All are fleeting, all must change. Know this and be free. Enter the joy of the Lord. Seek neither peace nor strife With kith or kin, with friend or foe. O beloved, if thou would attain freedom, be equal unto all. <
2.00 - BIBLIOGRAPHY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Bhagavad Gita. Among many translations of this Hindu scripture the best, from a literary point of view, is that of Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood (Los Angeles, 1944). Valuable notes, based upon the commentaries of Shankara, are to be found in Swami Nikhilanandas edition (New York, 1944), and Professor Franklin Edgertons literal translation (Cambridge, Mass., 1944) is preceded by a long and scholarly introduction.
BINYON, L. The Flight of the Dragon (London, 1911).
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BRAHMANANDA, Swami. Records of his teaching and a biography by Swami Prabhavananda are contained in The Eternal Companion (Los Angeles, 1944).
CAMUS, JEAN PIERRE. The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales (London, n. d.).
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PATANJALI. Yoga Aphorisms. Translated with a commentary by Swami Vivekananda (New York, 1899).
PONNELLE, L. and L. BORDET. St. Philpi Neri and the Roman Society of His Time (London, 1932).
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RAMAKRISHNA, SRI. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. Translated from the Bengali narrative of M by Swami Nikhilananda (New York, 1942).
RUMI, JALAL-UDDIN. Masnavi. Translated by E. H. Whinfield (London, 1898).
2.01 - On Books, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
About Swami Hamsa I don't remember his name. It was in the Gaekwad's palace that he gave two or three lectures. I was invited. But it is not true that I went and saw him. At that time I was not interested in Yoga. I did not ask him about Pranayama. I learnt about Pranayama from the engineer Devdhar who was a disciple of Brahmananda.
I do not remember any yogic cure by Brahmananda; at any rate, I did not take any servant with me.
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It is stated that Sri Aurobindo's patriotism got the religious colour by his contact with one Swami Hamsa. Swami Hamsa had nothing to do with his nationalism. He was a Hathayogi and Sri Aurobindo attended his lecture in the palace on invitation. He did not meet him at his place.
Mohanpuri did not give him daivi upsan introduction to spiritual life. It was for a purely political purpose that Sri Aurobindo took a Shakti Mantra from him. He performed a certain Yajna for the same purpose. But it was not Yoga.
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Swami Jnanananda's[1] book contains the following points.
The material world is made to answer, or suit, our senses.
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Disciple: But there are people who, having intelligence, steal passages from your writings and I know the case of a Swami who is famous throughout India and the world who has plagiarized passages from your books.
Sri Aurobindo (with a smile) : The Unconscious might have played a part. (Laughter) Or, he might turn round and say that it was taken by me from him! (Laughter) Or, that it was independently written! (Laughter)
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[1] Swami Jnanananda was originally the son of a Zamindar in Andhra. After Sannyas he went to North India and became a scientist. He went to Prague and Liverpool and was in the National Physical Laboratory, Delhi.
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2.02 - Meeting With the Goddess, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
tion by Swami Nikhilananda (New York, 1942), p. 9.
105
2.03 - Karmayogin A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
stage on the road, not the goal. Swami Bhaskarananda was
driven into Sannyas by a keen & overmastering disgust of life
2.03 - On Medicine, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Disciple: Swami Brahmananda of Chandod lived for more than 200 years.
Sri Aurobindo: Yes. If you know Hatha Yoga you can keep the body safe against disease. You can also reduce the slow process of ageing by supplying the vital force. The difficulty is you can't be always in Samadhi.
2.07 - On Congress and Politics, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
The Tarakeshwar affair was being settled. The first terms that were proposed did not meet with Sri Aurobindo's approval. But next day an open letter from Swami Vishwananda appeared agreeing with C. R. Das: The Mahant abdicates in favour of Prabhat Giri and the power of management of the temple rests with a committee that can, if necessary, dismiss the Mahant and the committee would appoint a separate Manager of Estates.
Sri Aurobindo: If we have our own Government we could throw out the Mahant and settle the affair once for all; but under a foreign rule if Das can establish the authority of the committee legally, it would be the cleverest thing to do, so that in case of emergency the committee can enforce its mandate by law. As it is, the whole law is against the public. After all Das is a man who 'muddles through' he acts on his intuitions and impulses and somehow muddles through a difficulty.
2.08 - ALICE IN WONDERLAND, #God Exists, #Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #Hinduism
Sri Swami Krishnananda We have an inveterate obsession in our minds which prevents us almost entirely from conceiving the goal of life as a practical reality. For us, the goal mostly remains as a kind of concept and an idea, an ideal which is not easily reconcilable with the hard realities of the workaday a world.
The goal may be God Himself, and nevertheless, He is only an idea an ideal, a concept, an imagination, a possibility, a may-be or may-not-be.
--
Buddha said this. A really perceiving individual cannot exist in this world for three days. He will melt into nothing. But the fact that perception has not arisen is the reason why we are very happy here. So, ignorance is the cause of our very comfortable existence. Now this comparative study of Eastern conclusions with Western discoveries seems to make us feel that all great men are thinking alikewhe ther Plato or Aristotle, Kent or Hegel, Acharya Sankara or Vidyaranya Swami.
Ideas are therefore not ideas of things which are earlier than the ideas, just as space and time are not subsequent to what we call the objective world, but precedent to the objective world. It is the final conclusion of Sir James Jean, for instance, that God must be a mathematician. It is not a man thinking mathematical point, but mathematics itself. How can you only think mathematics, without a person thinking mathematics? He says it is a mathematical consciousness, highly abstract, purely impersonal, and the universe is nothing but conceptions of mathematical point-events.
2.08 - On Non-Violence, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
The Tarakeshwar temple Satyagraha came in for discussion. Sri Aurobindo seemed anxious to know the details. The report was that Abhayanand was the Mahant's man and hirelings had been engaged to beat the volunteers of Swami Satchidananda and Vishwananda. Satchidananda was saved from being killed by the Gurkha, the watchman, of a Marwari Dharmasala. Sri Aurobindo was not only interested but anxious that the fight must go through to success.
Mahatmaji's silent day and the conclusion of his talk with the Swarajists came up. He wants the Swarajists to take up the constructive programme in the councils e.g., Khaddar and prohibition; in case of failure in getting them through, to resort to civil disobedience.
2.09 - On Sadhana, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Disciple: Yesterday we had a talk about Sj. Lele and his Gurubhai Narayan Swami, and I told you that I came to know that they follow I do not know how far it is true, though the Dattatreya Yoga. I wonder what that Yoga is like.
Sri Aurobindo: I was thinking about it after the talk. You know there is, perhaps, a traditional method of Yoga in Maharashtra which belongs to the Dattatreya cult. The truth behind it is that Dattatreya represents the highest realisation he always keeps his consciousness immersed in the Infinite and the freedom of the Infinite is brought down by him to the mental, vital and even to the physical plane. Therefore a man who is a Siddha of the path acts free like the Infinite even in his Prakriti and therefore may often act in a way which is considered immoral by society. He tries to bring down the power of the free Infinite into the instruments of manifestation and this he considers perfection. But it is doubtful whether it is perfection.
2.11 - On Education, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Disciple: My friend Swami Adwaitananda understands it all right but when I met professors of philosophy at Baroda and Lahore I found them complaining about their inability to understand it. Perhaps, people connected with Pondicherry can follow the writing easily.
Sri Aurobindo: Not always. But even The Life Divine is not so difficult; only, there are some chapters which anybody would find difficult.
2.12 - On Miracles, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Sri Aurobindo: For instance, Tailanga Swami's remaining in water; would you call it mastery over the physical? The power to work miracles, does it not constitute the supramentalised physical?
Disciple: I want to know if this Yoga has been tried before. Did anyone bring down the Truth to the material plane?
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Disciple: There is a story about Tailanga Swami, that once he was beaten by robbers and the marks of the beating were found on the body of the son of a robber.
Disciple: No. That version is not correct. The story is that a prince was coming to take a bath in the Ganges with his two queens and so a portion of the road leading to the bathing-ghat was screened off to conduct the Ranis to the river in purdh. When they were bathing, Tailanga Swami, who used to remain in the Ganges submerged for days together, suddenly appeared on the surface of the water and the king whipped him mercilessly. When he went home he found the marks of the whipping on his sons body.
Disciple: Ramakrishna also had a similar experience when the bullock that was being driven by the gardener was whipped in spite of Ramakrishna's protest; the marks of the whip were reproduced on Ramakrishna's body.
2.13 - On Psychology, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
It is better for his spiritual evolution that this crash has come to him; for, if he had remained sane and allowed this force to work through him and himself taken enjoyment of it like Y, or become a big Swami and had disciples etc., then there would have been very little chance to recover from it.
Disciple: Would he be able to reject this personality in this life?
2.14 - On Movements, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Disciple: Swami X seems to have spoiled the chance of Vedanta. Otherwise, it would be going on well.
Sri Aurobindo: Vedanta is too abstract for the ordinary mind. It was the personality of Vivekananda that gave the drive.
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Disciple: You said the other day that Tailanga Swami's remaining in water of the Ganges for several days does not constitute perfection of the physical. What is the notion of perfection implied in the physical being's getting supramentalised?
Sri Aurobindo ( waving his hands in the air) : I have no idea. ( Laughter)
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Disciple: There is an idea that Swami X could appear simultaneously at three places.
Sri Aurobindo: Ithink it requires proof.
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Sri Aurobindo: You see, you have in this example the explanation of how the Swami appeared at three places! (Laughter)
Disciple: It may be only the psychic presence.
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Disciple: He had a great admiration for Soham Swami who used to come to Bhawanipore once in a year. Perhaps if he were alive X would not have come to this Yoga.
Sri Aurobindo: Who was the Swami?
Disciple: He was a Vedantic yogi.
2.16 - The 15th of August, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Sri Aurobindo: That is due to the vital casting its own glow upon the physical. The vital Purusha is immortal and that creates a sense of immortality in the body, but that is not the real conquest. In the case of Swami Brahmananda, he lived up to 300 years so that he seemed practically immune from the action of age, but one day a rusty nail pricked him and he died of that slight wound. On the physical plane something you have not worked out turns up and shows that your conquest is not complete. That is why the process takes such a long time. You must establish the Higher Consciousness in every atom of the body; otherwise what happens is that something escapes your view in the hidden depth of the lower physical being which is known to the hostile forces and then they can attack through that weak point. They can create a combination of circumstances which would give rise to the thing not worked out and before you can control them they are already beyond control. In that case they can destroy you.
Disciple: Why is the physical so very obstinate and obscure?
2.17 - December 1938, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
But plenty of people can prophesy. That capacity is common among Yogis. When I was arrested, my maternal grand-aunt asked Swami Bhaskaranand, "What will happen to our Aurobindo?" He replied, "The Divine Mother has taken him in her arms; nothing will happen to him. But he is not your Aurobindo. He is the world's Aurobindo and the world will be filled with his perfume." Another time I was taken by Jatin Banerji to a Swami Narayan Jyotishi who foretold about my three trials, white enemies and also my release. When my horoscope was shown he said that there was some mistake about time and when the time was corrected he replied, "Oh, the lead is turned into gold now."
(Turning to X) Have you had any prophecy in dreams? Many people get dreams or visions of coming events.
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There was an article on Sri Aurobindo in Asia, an American paper, by Swami Nikhilananda of the Ramakrishna Mission.
Disciple: It is surprising that Swami Nikhilananda should write about you.
Sri Aurobindo: It is Nishtha who arranged for its publication before coming here. He is a friend of hers.
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Sri Aurobindo: Why not? There can be anger, like Durvasa's, or sex. You have not heard of the fall of Rishis through anger or through sex? The Yogis pass beyond the stage of good and evil. Ordinary questions of morality don't arise in them. They may look upon outer nature as a child behaving according to its wants. I think Z's fall came in that way. He had gone into the higher mind, perhaps, not even to the overmind state; he used to be guided by an inner voice which he accepted as the voice of the Divine and did everything in the light of that voice. When people were asking him about his conduct, I am told, he replied that it was by the voice of God and that every Siddha had done that. You have heard of Agamyananda Swami who went to London? He was arrested in England for making advances to women in public places.
Disciple: Would not the inner realisation stop because of these outer indulgences?
2.18 - January 1939, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
There was a hearty laugh over the thesis of a Marathi writer with socialistic tendencies who tried to prove that Swami Ramdas was a socialist!
Disciple: Some of our sadhaks seem to be too delicate: a small cut or even the smell of burning ghee upsets them. Sometimes other people who cannot understand this say this is mere feinting.
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Sri Aurobindo: No. Besides, I don't know if the Americans are interested in profound questions. Swami Nikhilananda, I heard, wrote an article about me which Nishtha [Miss Wilson] says, was profound. The editor of the paper returned it saying, "It won't interest the Americans," and he had to change it and make it what it is.
Disciple: But the Americans are open to new ideas.
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Disciple: Ramakrishna Mission seems to be more occupied with social and humanitarian work; I don't know if there is much spirituality in it. My cousin, Swami Adwaitananda, went there and he was quite dissatisfied and came back.
Sri Aurobindo: Plenty of people complain of that. But what work do they do?
2.24 - THE MASTERS LOVE FOR HIS DEVOTEES, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
^One of the disciples of the Master, later known as Swami Abhedananda.
^To a cobbler nothing in this world is as important as leather.
2.25 - AFTER THE PASSING AWAY, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
^The monastic names of the Master's intimate disciples who renounced the world soon after his death were as follows: Narendra — Swami Vivekananda, Rakhal — Swami Brahmananda, Jogin — Swami Jogananda, Niranjan — Swami Niranjanananda, Latu — Swami Adbhutananda, Baburam — Swami Premananda, Tarak — Swami Shivananda, Hari — Swami Turiyananda, Sarat — Swami Saradananda, Sashi — Swami Ramakrishnananda, Kali — Swami Abhedananda, Gangadhar — Swami Akhandananda, Gopal (elder) — Swami Advaitananda, Sarada Prasanna — Swami Trigunatitananda, Subodh — Swami Subodhananda, Tulasi — Swami Nirmalananda
^The night of Siva. On this day the devotees observe fast and spend the whole night in meditation, prayer., and other spiritual exercises.
2.25 - List of Topics in Each Talk, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
| 28-06-26 | Maharshi, Tailanga Swami, Ramakrishna, St. Francis, Sri Aurobindo's experiences |
| 30-07-26 | Meditation time; omens, premonitions; ghosts; fear, pineal gland, telepathy |
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| 14-15-39 | Yogic action on world, Swami Dayananda of Bengal, Avatarhood; Rosicrucians, mysticism, ego and self; Buddhi and Mukti; Kant; disinterested action; Reason and Truth |
| 15-12-39 | Reason, spiritual experience; the Absolute, knowledge by identity; Siddhis |
25.09 - CHILDRENS SONG, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Chandikananda Swami
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31.07 - Shyamakanta, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I INTEND to write of another great Bengali who can be looked upon as a model of the Bengali race. He has shown the genius of the Bengalis in quite an unusual field. His name is Shyamakanta, later on known as So'ham Swami.
I speak of the extraordinary capacity of Shyamakanta and not of So'ham Swami. In fact, for the achievement he attained in the domain of physical strength, he deserves nothing short of the term genius. In this field, too, a Bengali was able to show his unique superiority. His strength was not merely physical strength. It was not the result of any physical culture. For there was a peculiar magic, almost a mantric power in his physical strength and capabilities. He could curb and control wild lions and tigers in the twinkling of an eye, not solely by physical strength but by something else as well. I do not refer to his moral force, though there were in him the qualities of calmness, courage and self-confidence beyond measure, which further enhanced his physical strength. I speak of a unique trait of his physical strength itself. For, it was as though his strength was derived more from his marrow than from his bones, more from his blood than from his muscles, more from his nerves than from his tendons. The well-nourished marrow, the vigour of blood and the firmness of nerves kept up a healthy, harmonious, powerful and unhampered current of vitality, and this current was the perennial fount of Shyamakanta's physical strength. His strength was not like the power of a machine. There was in it a natural and innate liveliness and an irresistible movement of nature itself, so to speak. Wild and ferocious animals used to crouch at his feet, awed by the current of his dynamic vitality. They felt that he was their Lord, their King.
Shyamakanta was able to invoke and retain in his body the physical strength of the Universal Nature by establishing a union: the identity between his own strength and that of the Universal Nature. Perhaps the realisation of this physical identity - 'I am That' - in the end raised him into the realisation of the Transcendental Identity.
33.02 - Subhash, Oaten: atlas, Russell, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Banerji too was there; he won the Ishan Scholarship in his B.A. examination and was ultimately given the name of Swami Raghavananda or Sitapati Maharaj at the Ramakrishna Mission. These more or less .made up the list of the "good" boys. Among the "bad" ones was Indranath Nandi, a son of Colonel Nandi of the Indian Medical Service. Let me recount some of his exploits.
He had been a colleague of Barin Ghose of Manicktolla Gardens fame, and also a member of the Atmonnati Samiti, an "Association for Self-improvement". This Samiti was really a centre for the recruitment and training of revolutionaries. I too had been one of the junior members of the Samiti. Bepin Behari Ganguli was among its organisers. We had just given up football as being a non-Indian sport and had taken up lathi and dagger play. I had already attained such proficiency in these games that I was once asked to give a demonstration of lathi play before Mrs. Sarala Devi Chowdhurani on the occasion of one of her visits. But Indra Nandi was engaged in something much more serious; he was trying to make bombs. And he ended by blowing up his fingers in an explosion during a test. Caught in this maimed condition, he was sent up for trial in the Alipore Bomb case, although he could not be convicted. Our counsel managed to prove that the state of his hands was due to their being crushed under an iron chest.2
33.08 - I Tried Sannyas, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I said, This is a sacred spot dedicated to the memory of Swami Vivekananda. I have a deep attraction for Swamiji, and I want to follow his idea1.
"To have an attraction for Swamiji," he said, "is a very good thing. But it is not enough. It is easy enough, especially for Indian youths, to adore him and do him worship. What is more difficult is to know and understand his Master, Sri Ramakrishna. And he who does not know and understand Sri Ramakrishna cannot know and understand Swami Vivekananda wel1. In any case, you will agree that anyone cannot be admitted to the Math just like that. You pay us a few visits, let us get to know each other better, then perhaps we might decide something."
"But I have no intention of going back," I said. "On that I am determined."
33.11 - Pondicherry II, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Amarendra had suddenly disappeared one day. He lived the life of a primitive savage in the jungles of Assam; he had been selling poultry and eggs at the steamship stations along the rivers of East Bengal, in the garb of a Muslim complete with Lungi and Fez. And so many other things he had done just in order to avoid the Government's vigilant eye. It was a long romantic tale. Finally, he made himself a Sannyasin, became a Guruji. Near Tanjore he set up his Ashram. Disciples gathered, his mantras and teachings brought him fame; he styled himself, if I remember aright, Swami Kaivalyananda. The British Government were completely fooled.
The Swamiji, our Amarendra, came here to obtain Sri Aurobindo's instructions as to what to do next. This, as I have said, was after the end of the War, when practically all the political prisoners had been set free and even those deported to the Andamans had been allowed to come back. He wished to know if he could now disclose himself and also what he was to do afterwards. He was advised to go back to Calcutta and await the turn of events for a while. The Swamiji now ordered his disciples back to the Ashram and. said that he would like to live in solitude for some time.
That was the end of Swami Kaivalyananda. He had had his nirvana and his place was taken by Amarendra Chatterji. The disciples had in the meantime gone back to their Ashram. There they kept waiting, but the months passed without any news of Guruji. They came here at last to find out where their Guruji was. Where indeed?
I met Amarendra for the last time just before I came away to Pondicherry for good. I had been to his shop. It was a drapery stores known as the Workers' Cooperative that served as a veil and a meeting ground for terrorist activities. He knew all about me and also that I was on my way to Pondicherry. As a parting gift, he handed me a shawl from his Stores, adding, "Payable when able." I distinctly remember the phrase. I came in touch with him again long after this. He became a devotee and disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and remained a faithful follower till his death.
5.4.02 - Occult Powers or Siddhis, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
action "like a child, mad man, pisacha or inert object". There are others who deliberately use rough or violent speech to keep people at a distance or to test them. But the outbreak of rage of this Swami which you recount seems to have been simply an outburst of fury due to offended egoism. His judgment about
Ramana Maharshi is absurd in the extreme.1 As to his asking for the nail, hair etc. and his presenting of clothes or jumper, it was probably to establish a physical means of establishing an occult influence on you and your wife possibly by some Tantric or magic kriya - in Tibet such magic processes are well known and in common use.
9.99 - Glossary, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Narendra(nath): A disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, subsequently world famous as Swami Vivekananda.
Nareschandra: A mystic poet of Bengal.
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Swami: (Lit., lord) A title of the monks belonging to the Vedanta school.
Swarup: A disciple of Sri Chaitanya.
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Trailanga: Swami A holy man who lived in Benares and was a contemporary of Sri Ramakrishna.
Tretayuga: The second of the four yugas or cycles. See yuga.
APPENDIX I - Curriculum of A. A., #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Raja-Yoga by Swami Vivekananda ::: An excellent elementary study of Hindu mysticism. His Bhakti-Yoga is also good.
The Shiva Sanhita. ::: A famous Hindu treatise on certain physical practices.
BOOK I. -- PART I. COSMIC EVOLUTION, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
countries and places inaccessible to the European pundits, the late Swami Dayan and Sarasvati, the
greatest Sanskritist of his day in India, assured some members of the Theosophical Society of the same
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more enlightened age, for which in the words of the late Swami Dayan and Sarasvati, "the Mlechchhas
(outcasts, savages, those beyond the pale of Aryan civilization) will have to wait."
Liber 71 - The Voice of the Silence - The Two Paths - The Seven Portals, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
subject from experience. The late Swami Vivekananda did know his.
Sabapaty Swami did so. Sri Parananda Swami did so, and of course above
all these stands Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya. Outside these, one can think
MoM References, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Radha, Swami S. (1978). Kundalini yoga for the west. Boston: Shambala.
Rapoport, J. (1989). The boy who couldnt stop washing: The experience and treatment of OCD. New
Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (text), #Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Swami Vivekananda, then known Narendranath Datta. The Swami was the special object of Sri
Ramakrishna's love and grace, and in later life spread his Master's message far and wide, and made a
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went to him for blessings. A few days after, he imparted the experience of Nirvikalpa Samadhi to Swami
Vivekananda.
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women as lovers.[74] Swami Tyagananda, considered this to be a "linguistic
misconstruction."[75] Ramakrishna also cautioned his women disciples against purusa-
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down on the wall of Sri Ramakrishna's room: "Taught by the Swami, from this day forward Ramachandra
Brahmachari regards the Lord as his Master and himself as His humble servant."
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dreadful disease of cancer in the throat had already reduced him to a mere skeleton, Narendra, thedisciple (the future Swami Vivekananda), felt a curious inclination to test the Master's oft-repeated
assertion of his being an Incarnation. So he said to himself: "If in the midst of this dreadful physical
SB 1.1 - Questions by the Sages, #Bhagavata Purana, #unset, #Zen
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On a former occasion B. V. Narasimha Swami, author of SelfRealization, asked: Who am I? How is it to be found?
M.: Ask yourself the question. The body (annamaya kosa) and its functions are not I.
Talks 026-050, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Mr. Ramamurthi: Swamiji, I have read Bruntons book A Search in
Secret India, and was much impressed by the last chapter, where he says that it is possible to be conscious without thinking. I know that one can think, remaining forgetful of the physical body. Can one think without the mind? Is it possible to gain that consciousness which is beyond thoughts?
Talks 125-150, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
An elderly gentleman, formerly a co-worker with B. V. Narasimha Swami and author of some Visishtadvaita work, visited the place for the first time. He asked about rebirths, if it is possible for the linga sarira (subtle body) to get dissolved and be reborn in two years after death.
M.: Yes. Surely. Not only can one be reborn, one may be twenty or forty or even seventy years old in the new body though only two years after death. Sri Bhagavan cited Lilas story from Yoga Vasishta.
Talks 176-200, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Mr. Frydman had asked Swami Ramdas something, to which he replied that there would be no more births for himself. The engineer had pointed out there should be no anxiety regarding rebirth. There will be the same
Rama, the same Ramdas, the same search for Rama and the same bliss of realisation. What objection could be there for the repetition of this
Talks 500-550, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
The following is taken from the diary of Annamalai Swami, a good devotee of Sri Bhagavan and resident of Sri Ramanasramam:
The Teachings of Sri Ramana Bhagavan.
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This was in answer to the Swami who wanted to retire into a cave for practising meditation.
(2) He asked about sannyas. Should not a man renounce everything in order that he might get Liberation?
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Sri Bhagavan turned to the Swami and said that there was the reply to his question.
This state is called Bhakti, Yoga and Karma.
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When Sri Bhagavan was going up the hill, the Swami asked: Does the closing or the opening of the eyes make any difference during dhyana?
M.: If you strike on a wall with a rubber-ball and you stand at a distance, the ball rebounds and runs back to you. If you stand near the wall, the ball rebounds and runs away from you. Even if the eyes are closed, the mind follows thoughts.
Talks 600-652, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi missing." Then He called for the attendant, Madhava Swami, and asked: "Madhava, did anyone remove the sparrows' nest?
The attendant, who walked in leisurely, answered with an air of unconcern: "I removed the nests as often as they were built. I removed the last one this very afternoon."
Talks With Sri Aurobindo 1, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
8:30p.m. Nrodbaran read an article in Asia, an American paper, to Sri Aurobindo on himself and his Yoga. It was written by Swami Nikhilananda.
NIRODBARAN: It is surprising that a Ramakrishna Mission Yogi should write
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By the way, who is Purohit Swami?
PURANI: I don't know. It is he who has translated the Upanishads with Yeats
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SRI AUROBINDO: Sakaria Swami also had Yogic control. One day he saw a
mad dog coming towards him. He held out his hand for the dog to bite. After
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--- Hyponyms of noun swami
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun swami
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swami
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Radhanath Swami ::: Born: December 7, 1950; Occupation: Author;
Swami Vivekananda ::: Born: January 12, 1863; Died: July 4, 1902; Occupation: Author;
Swami Satchidananda ::: Born: December 22, 1914; Died: August 19, 2002; Occupation: Author;
Goswami Kriyananda ::: Born: May 19, 1926; Died: April 21, 2013; Occupation: Author;
Swami Brahmananda ::: Born: January 21, 1863; Died: April 10, 1922;
Rama Swami ::: Born: 1925; Died: 1996;
Bhakti Charu Swami ::: Born: September 17, 1945;
Yogaswami ::: Born: 1872; Died: 1964;
Swami Nithyananda ::: Born: January 1, 1978;
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Sivaya Subramuniyaswami ::: Born: January 5, 1927; Died: November 12, 2001;
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Sacinandana Swami ::: Born: 1954;
Amit Goswami ::: Born: 1936; Occupation: Author;
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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha ::: Born: May 13, 1933;
Swami Veda Bharati ::: Born: 1933; Died: July 14, 2015; Occupation: Author;
Swami Parthasarathy ::: Born: June 8, 1927;
Narayanananda Swami. ::: Born: April 12, 1902; Died: February 26, 1988;
Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami ::: Born: December 9, 1937; Died: October 2, 2006;
Mukunda Goswami ::: Born: April 10, 1942;
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