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I am neither man nor angel. I...

I am neither man nor angel. I have no sex nor limit. I am knowledge itself. I am He. I have neither anger nor hatred. I have neither pain nor pleasure. Death or birth I never had. For I am Knowledge Absolute, and Bliss Absolute. I am He, my soul, I am He!

Vivekananda 1692 quotes

We believe that every being i...

We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.

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The Hindus have cultivated th...

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

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Who makes us ignorant? We our...

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

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Motion is always a relative t...

Motion is always a relative thing. I move in relation to something else. Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one, and in relation to what can it move? There is nothing besides it. So this infinite Unit is unchangeable, immovable, absolute, and this is the Real Man.

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It is entirely wrong to think...

It is entirely wrong to think that we have done, or can do, good to the world, or to think that we have helped such and such people. It is a foolish thought, and all foolish thoughts bring misery. We think that we have helped some man and expect him to thank us, and because he does not, unhappiness comes to us. Why should we expect anything in return for what we do? 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?

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The way to God is the opposit...

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.

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"None is good, save One, that...

"None is good, save One, that is, God", as the Lord Jesus bath said. The rest are only tools in His hands. "Gloria in Excelsis", "Glory unto God in the highest", and unto men that deserve, but not to such an undeserving one like me. Here "the servant is not worthy of the hire"; and a Fakir, especially, has no right to any praise whatsoever, for would you praise your servant for simply doing his duty?

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As the cause is, so the effec...

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.

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Individuality in universality...

Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time universal. It is while realising our individual nature that we realise even our national and universal nature. Each is an infinite circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. By practice one can feel universal Selfhood which is the essence of Hinduism. He who sees in every being his own Self is a Pandita (sage).

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Every time you think of doing...

Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O Lord, let the world be full of charitable people!" - you mean, let the world be full of beggars also. Let the world be full of good works - let the world be full of misery. This is out-and-out slavishness!

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Man can think of divine thing...

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

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Meditation, you know, comes b...

Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit.

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The three essentials of Hindu...

The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.

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There is only one sin and it ...

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.

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...Really, there is no greate...

...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.

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Alcohol is not the answer to ...

Alcohol is not the answer to all questions

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Jnana teaches that the world ...

Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.

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Let us realise [that] we are ...

Let us realise [that] we are the infinite power. Who put a limit to the power of mind? Let us realise we are all mind. Every drop has the whole of the ocean in it. That is the mind of man. The Indian mind reflects upon these [powers and potentialities] and wants to bring [them] all out. For himself he doesn't care what happens. It will take a great length of time [to reach perfection]. If it takes fifty thousand years, what of that!

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Everything, both mental and p...

Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation.

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