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How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!
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The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.
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Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.
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May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love.
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In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.
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It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good
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You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desires for name and fame.
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Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart.
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"Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times.
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The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.
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The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others, but take care they do not become a bondage.
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Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.
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This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.
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Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round in fear lest at any moment some one may come and drive them out. Instead of that, be a king and know you own the world. This never comes until you give it up and it ceases to bind. Give up mentally, if you do not physically. Give up from the heart of your hearts
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In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.
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Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result.
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I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till I have finished it. And oh, how shall I speak of him? Oh, his love for me!
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The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.
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There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed.
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As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.
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This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.
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Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.
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Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.
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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.
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Do not say, 'You are bad'; say only, 'You are good', but be better!
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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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