It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign

invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land which
stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its
life is of the same nature as the soul,without beginning and without end, immortal; and
we are the children of such a country.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your
hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none
has the praise.

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.

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.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be
established through a thousand stumbles.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life.
He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is
the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks
for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart
stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the
feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy.

Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your
country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations.

This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers
at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honour and respect, get only disgrace; and
those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there
and is never injured. We are that Infinite.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it
is dark.

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.

Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer
desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself.

Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will
always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into
the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio.

The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.

"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher."
That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been
done.

All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all
truths flash upon it in a minute; all truth in the universe will manifest in your heart, if
you are sufficiently pure.

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never
moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands
to work.

Women will work out their destinies much better, too, than men can ever do for them.
All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of
women.

Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is
taking so much of self-importance away from our little selves and making us think of
ourselves as the lowest and the least, and, therefore, it is all good. Here we find that
Jnna, Bhakti, and Karma - all come to one point.

You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is
teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and
it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.
The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is
resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the
outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no
success either.

Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide!

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the
changes we make in ourselves.

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the
changes we make in ourselves.

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings
Heaven even in a moment.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of
all else.

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what
is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the
power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions,
it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our
present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb
it; do not become others.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in
your life.

Whether dualistic, qualified monistic, or monistic, they all firmly believe that everything
is in the soul itself; it has only to come out and manifest itself. Therefore, this shraddha
is what I want, and what all of us here want, this faith in ourselves, and before you is
the great task to get that faith. 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.

I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an
insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred
forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.
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.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are
secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the
silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself.... Burst your own cocoon and come
out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see Truth.

Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be
allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't
bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not
even in mind.

Anything that is western origin, first you verify it, then accept it. Anything that is Indian
origin, first accept it, then verify it if necessary.

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.

The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new
gospel

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing
because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are
hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who,
having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who,
having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.

Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength
in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.
If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart
of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life;
all else is mere moonshine.

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts

First, believe in the world-that there is meaning behind everything.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay
the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find
that is always true. Get hold of yourself.

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay
the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find
that is always true. Get hold of yourself.

We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came
to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail
of our life.

The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a
man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion. Misery is caused by sin, and
by no other cause. What business have you with clouded faces? It is terrible. If you have
a clouded face, do not go out that day, shut yourself up in your room. What right have
you to carry this disease out into the world?

I have Maya for mother-in-law;

the world for father-in-law;

three brother-in-law, like tigers;

and the husbands thoughts

are full of laughing women;

no god, this man.

And I cannot cross the sister-in-law.

But I will

give this wench the slip

and go cuckold my husband with Hara, my Lord.

My mind is my maid:

by her kindness, I join

my Lord,

my utterly beautiful Lord

from the mountain peaks

my lord white as jasmine,

and I will make Him

my good husband.