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I ask you all so earnestly to open girl’s schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.

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Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom-physical, mental, and spiritual-and help others to do so.

It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality, background, status.

In these days of intellectual awakening and steadily asserting public opinion, the holy places of the Hindus, their condition, and method of work have not escaped tile keen eye of criticism; and this city, being the holy of holies to all Hindus, has not failed to attract its full share of censure.

We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others – the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.

Say – i am the Atman in which my lower ego has become merged for ever. Be perfect in this idea; and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: “Thou art That”, “Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached!”

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.

My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.

Science, art, learning and metaphysical research all have their proper functions in life, but if you seek to blend them, you destroy their individual characteristics until, in time, you eliminate the spiritual, for instance, from the religious altogether.

An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.

Holiness sincerity, and faith.

Hindus believe Buddha to be an Avatara.

All growth, progress, well – being, or degradation is but relative.

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.

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.

Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.

It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.

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.

Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God’s air.

The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the make-up of the minds of every nation, not through writings, but through persons.

The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.

The “ego” like its correlative “non-ego”, is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.

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A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore!

Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.

If you want to live, go back to Christ. You are not Christians. Go back to Christ. Go back to him who had nowhere to lay his head. Better be ready to live in rags with Christ than to live in palaces without him.

I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.

Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.

The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah – Shathakopa – “who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while”.

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

Two things control man’s character; Strength and Pity.

From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion.

The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.

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The law of attraction which holds good for the heavenly bodies also holds good for the smallest particles.

Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.

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.

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Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.

I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?

The development of man is a return to an original perfection.

The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.

Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less.

Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.

That is the great fact which you ought to remember. We are the children of the Almighty, we are sparks of the infinite, divine fire. How can we be nothings? We are everything, ready to do everything, we can do everything, and man must do everything.

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil – doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.

A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.

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