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What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.
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But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There I want to work out this idea about which I have spoken to you today. There are an Englishman and an Englishwoman in charge of the place. The purpose is to train seekers of truth and to bring up children without fear and without superstition. They shall not hear about Christs and Buddhas and Shivas and Vishnus - none of these.
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I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!
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I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion.
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Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three.
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Do not blame any supernatural being, neither be hopeless and despondent, nor think we are in a place from which we can never escape unless someone comes and lends us a helping hand.
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Ay! says the Vedanta, it is not the fault of God that this partiality exists, that this competition exists. Who makes it? We ourselves. There is a cloud shedding its rain on all fields alike. But it is only the field that is well cultivated, which gets the advantage of the shower; another field, which has not been tilled or taken care of cannot get that advantage. It is not the fault of the cloud.
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Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].
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No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.
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We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it? Only the perfect man, the God-man. The rest are all idolaters. So long as we see this universe before us, with its forms and shapes, we are all idolaters. This is a gigantic symbol we are worshipping. He who says he is the body is a born idolater.
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One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.
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All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.
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There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.
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Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman.
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In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door.
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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.
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Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.
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The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if it does so; the difference lies in the way in which it is used.
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A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain changes in thought, to mind; certain order singly, to causation - and joined to time, to law.
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Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.
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"If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence.
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When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.
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Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.
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So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God forms or symbols, names, God-men. All religions have these, but you find that they want to fight with each other...These are the external forms of devotion, through which man has to pass; but if he is sincere, if he really wants to reach the truth, he goes higher than these, to a plane where forms are as nothing.
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We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".
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Swami Vivekananda
Born:
January 12, 1863
Died:
July 4, 1902
(aged 39)
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Swami Vivekananda Bengali, born Narendranath Dutta, was an Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna.
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The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Life and Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda
Raja Yoga (1896)
Karma Yoga (1896)
Lectures from Colombo to Almora (1897)
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