1. If you have to think, think good thought, great thoughts.
2. Throw away everything, and go and help others.
Preaching:
· It is the knowledge of the “spirit” of the scriptures alone that constitutes the true religious teacher.
Humour:
· Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Power is:
1. The Secret of Power
Remember, it is the ‘person’, the life, which is the secret of power--------------nothing else.
2. What power is higher than the power of purity?
3. All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves.
4. When thought is joined to will, we call it power.
Law:
· More of goodness, less of artificial laws.
Greatness:
1. Both attachment and detachment perfectly developed make a man great and happy.
2. Achieve happiness or achieve greatness.
3. Feel that you are great and you become great.
4. Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith in God - this is the secret of greatness.
5. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves. Born with the consciousness that they were to be great, they became great.
Oneness:
· The nearer we approach God, the more do we begin to see that all things are in Him.
· The more a man advances towards oneness, the more ideas of “I” and “you” subside.
· Oneness is the secret of everything.
· We must not look down with contempt on others. All of us are going towards the same goal. The difference between the weakness and strength is one of degree; the difference between virtue and vice is one of degree; the difference between heaven and hell is one of degree; the difference between life and death is one of degree; all difference in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
· The Vedas cannot show you Brahman, you are That already; they can only help to take away the veil that hides the truth from our eyes. The first veil to vanish is ignorance, and when that is gone, sin goes, next desire ceases, selfishness ends and all misery disappears. This cessation of ignorance can only come when I know that God and I are one; in other words, identify yourself with Atman, not with human limitations. Disidentify yourself with the body and all will cease. This is the secret of healing. The universe is a case of hypnotization; dehypnotize yourself and cease to suffer.
· The seeing of many is the great sin of all the world. See all as Self and love all; let all idea of separateness go.
Ignorance:
· The Vedas cannot show you Brahman, you are That already; they can only help to take away the veil that hides the truth from our eyes. The first veil to vanish is ignorance, and when that is gone, sin goes, next desire ceases, selfishness ends and all misery disappears. This cessation of ignorance can only come when I know that God and I are one; in other words, identify yourself with Atman, not with human limitations. Disidentify yourself with the body and all will cease. This is the secret of healing. The universe is a case of hypnotization; dehypnotize yourself and cease to suffer.
Misery:
1. Ignorance is the great mother of all misery.
2. All the misery of the world is caused by the slavery to the senses.
3. It is the culture of the heart, really, and not that of the intellect that will lessen the misery of the world.
4. Misery comes because we think we are finite---------------we are little beings.
5. The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practised, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
6. The Great Cause of Misery in the World
The moment you fear, you are nobody. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. Therefore ‘Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached’.
7. Attachment to the unreal will bring misery.
8. The misery that we suffer comes from ignorance, from non-discrimination between the real and the unreal.
9. The weak have no place here, in this life or in any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death. There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us until we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us; they have no power to get hold on us, until the mind is weakened.
10. The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down. It is attachment, identification, which makes us miserable. That is the secret: to think that I’m the Spirit and not the body, and that whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as series of paintings, scenes on a canvas, of which I’m the witness.
11. There is no misery where there is no want.
12. What is our real misery : -
Nature is trying all around to suppress us, and the soul wants to express itself. The struggle with nature is going on. Many things will be crushed and broken in this struggle for freedom, That is you real misery. Large masses of dust and dirt must be raised on the battlefield. Nature says, ‘I will conquer’. The soul says, ‘I must be the conqueror’. Nature says, ‘Wait! I will give you a little enjoyment to keep you quite’. The soul enjoys a little, become deluded a moment, but the next moment it cries for freedom again. Have you marked the eternal cry going out through the ages in every breast? We are deceived by poverty. We become wealthy and are deceived by wealth. We are ignorant. We read and learn and are deceived with knowledge. No man is ever satisfied. That is the cause of misery, but it is also a cause of blessing. That is the sure sign. How can you be satisfied with this world?......................THE INFINITE SOUL CAN ONLY BE SATISFIED BUT BY THE INFINITE ITSELF…………………INFINITE DESIRE CAN ONLY BE SATISFIED BY INFINITE KNOWLEDGE------------------------NOTHING SHORT OF THAT.
13. The miseries of the world cannot be cured by physical help only. Until man’s nature changes, these physical needs will always arise, and miseries will always be felt, and no amount of physical help will cure them completely. THE ONLY SOLUTION OF THIS PROBLEM IS TO MAKE MANKIND PURE. IGNORANCE IS THE MOTHER OF ALL THE EVIL AND ALL THE MISERY WE SEE. Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually strong and educated, then alone will misery cease in the world, not before.
Freedom:
1. No action can give you freedom; only knowledge can make you free.
2. Freedom is to lose all illusions.
3. To become pure is the shortest path to freedom.
4. Freedom is the one goal of all nature, sentient or insentient; and consciously or unconsciously, everything is struggling towards that goal.
5. Let us then be brave and sincere: whatever path we follow with devotion, must take us to freedom.
6. No action can give you freedom; only knowledge can make you free. Knowledge is irresistible; the mind cannot take it or reject it. When it comes, the mind has to accept it; so it is not a work of the mind, only, its expression comes in the mind.
7. The greatest goodness is the highest freedom.
8. How freedom is to be attained
The goal of all nature is freedom, and freedom is to be attained only by perfect unselfishness.
9. We have got to work and worship and struggle to be free.
Solution:
1. ………………..let everyone be taught that the divine is within, and everyone will work out his own salvation.
2. Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually strong and educated, then alone will misery cease in the world, not before.
3. All healthy social changes are the manifestations of the spiritual forces working within, and if these are strong and well adjusted, society will arrange itself accordingly. Each individual has to work out his own salvation; there is no other way, and so also with nations…………….It is very easy to point out the defects of institutions, all being more or less important, but he is the real benefactor of humanity who helps the individual to overcome his imperfections under whatever institutions he may live. The individuals being raised, the nation and its institution are bound to rise.
4. The ideals of us are RENUNCIATION and SERVICE…………...…….Intensify yourself in these channels, and the rest will take care of itself.
5. Bring forth the power of the spirit, and pour it over the length and breadth of
6. But bold we must be. Hiding facts is not the way to find a remedy.
7. We are to be saved from sin by being saved from ignorance.
8. We must work out our own problem, the prophets only show us how to work.
9. It is the culture of the heart, really, and not that of the intellect that will lessen the misery of the world.
10. Our solution is renunciation, and love, these are the fittest to survive.
11. The Vedas cannot show you Brahman, you are That already; they can only help to take away the veil that hides the truth from our eyes. The first veil to vanish is ignorance, and when that is gone, sin goes, next desire ceases, selfishness ends and all misery disappears. This cessation of ignorance can only come when I know that God and I are one; in other words, identify yourself with Atman, not with human limitations. Disidentify yourself with the body and all will cease. This is the secret of healing. The universe is a case of hypnotization; dehypnotize yourself and cease to suffer.
12. Let us perfect the means; the end will take care of itself. For the world can be good and pure, only if our lives are good and pure. It is an effect, and we are the means. Therefore, let us purify ourselves. Let us make ourselves perfect.
13. ………………arise, awake, for the time is propitious. Already everything is opening out before us. Be bold and fear not. It is only in our scriptures that this objective is given unto the Lord--------------Abhih, Abhih. We have to become Abhih, fearless, and our task will be done. Arise, awake, for your country needs this tremendous sacrifice.
14. When the life-blood is strong and pure, no disease germ can live in that body. Our life-blood is spirituality. If it flows clear, if it flows strong and pure and 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.
15. Give up.
16. Renounce everything.
17. Manifest the divinity within you, and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it.
18. Every child is a born optimist; he dreams golden dreams. In youth he becomes still more optimistic. It is hard for a young man to believe that there is such a thing as death, such a thing as defeat or degradation. Old age comes, and life is a mass of ruins. Dreams have vanished into the air, and the man becomes a pessimist. Thus we go from one extreme to another, buffeted by nature……………..not one ideal can be fully attained, not one thirst can be quenched………………and when latter we get kicked about by society like foot balls…………………we sit in a corner and croak and throw cold water on the enthusiasm of others.
But bold we must be. Hiding facts is not the way to find a remedy. As you all know, a hare hunted by dogs puts its head down and thinks itself safe……………….If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upwards.
19. The miseries of the world cannot be cured by physical help only. Until man’s nature changes, these physical needs will always arise, and miseries will always be felt, and no amount of physical help will cure them completely. THE ONLY SOLUTION OF THIS PROBLEM IS TO MAKE MANKIND PURE. IGNORANCE IS THE MOTHER OF ALL THE EVIL AND ALL THE MISERY WE SEE. Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually strong and educated, then alone will misery cease in the world, not before.
Self control:
1. The more you fly from nature, the more she follows you; and if you do not care for her at all. She becomes your slave.
2. Do not let the thoughts grasp you; stand aside, and they will die away.
3. Absolute control of nature, and nothing short of it, must be the goal.
4. Stand as a witness, as a student, and observe the phenomena of nature.
5. That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
6. We must be the masters, and not the slaves of nature; neither body nor mind must be our master, nor must we forget that the body is mine, and not I the body’s.
7. Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.
8. Purity of the mind must be insisted upon if you would control it.
9. He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his slave.
10. Nature is conquered by man everyday.
11. Nature must fall at your feet and you must trample on it and be free and glorious by going beyond.
12. The idea that the goal is far off, far beyond nature, attracting us all towards it, has to be brought nearer and nearer, without degrading or degenerating it. The God of heaven becomes the God in nature, and the God in nature becomes the God who is nature, and the God who is nature becomes the God within this temple of the body, and the God dwelling in the temple of the body at last becomes the temple itself, becomes the soul and man--------------and there it reaches the last words it can teach…………………..Nature never has power over you. Like a frightened child you were dreaming that it was throttling you, and the release from this fear is the goal: not only to see it intellectually, but to perceive it, actualize it, much more definitely than we perceive this world. Then we shall know that we are free, and then alone, will all difficulties vanish, then will all the perplexities of heart be smoothed away, all crookedness made straight, then will vanish the delusion of manifoldness and nature; and Maya, instead of being a horrible, hopeless dream, as it is now, will become beautiful, and the earth instead of being a prison-house, will become our play-ground; and even dangers and difficulties, even all sufferings, will become defied and show us their real nature, will show us that behind everything, as the substance of everything He is standing, and that He is the one real Self.
13. Control the mind, cut off the senses, then you are a Yogi; after that, all the rest will come. Refuse to hear, to see, to smell, to taste; take away the mental power from the external organs.
14. To control our passions we have to control them at their very roots; then alone shall we be able to burn out their very seeds.
Heart:
1. I find, as I always thought, that it is through the ‘heart’ and that alone, that the world can be reached.
2. Always cultivate the heart.
3. It is through the heart, and the heart alone, that inspiration comes.
4. Deep as the ocean, broad as the infinite skies, that is the sort of heart we want.
5. Let the heart be opened first, and all else will follow of itself.
6. Within the heart is the
7. It is the heart, the heart that conquers, not the brain.
8. The more heart you will be able to manifest, the greater will be the victory you achieve.
9. It is the heart that reaches the Goal.
Spirituality:
· Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. "Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached," say the Vedas. "Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me," says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?
Holiness:
1. Holiness is the highest and divinest power in earth and in heaven.
2. Keep yourself holy, and pure.
3. Light is everywhere visible only in the men of holiness.
4. Light is everywhere visible only in the men of holiness.
5. Perish in the struggle to be holy; a thousand times welcome death.
6. Go on thinking holy thoughts continuously, that is the only way to suppress base impressions.
7. Hold yourself in readiness, i.e., be pure and holy, and love for love’s sake.
8. Keep yourself holy and pure.
9. Work hard. Be holy and pure and the fire will come.
10. It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world --------------- that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you are not understanding it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves!
11. Poverty is not a synonym for holiness.
12. Holiness is the highest and divinest power in earth and in heaven.
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