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The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.
Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.
Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.
Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another."
Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?
We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end.
Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure.
We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed.
Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.
The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain.
According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.
Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.
Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.
How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn.
YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.
Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.
The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.
We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.
Do not disturb the faith of any. . . Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others.
Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.
What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.
When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it
The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.
The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.
Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.
Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.
Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.
All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling.
It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.
Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.
The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love.
We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.
The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.
Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.
Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.
The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.
The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.
These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.
This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.
Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.
I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.
The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.