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Patriot-Saint of Modern India
Prophet of Holy-Land: India

Prophet of Divinity of Man
Prophet of Universal Hinduism Saviour-Prophet of the Masses
Prophet of Mother Power Prophet with a Message to the West
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Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863--4 July 1902) the prophet of
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the modern world, was born in Calcutta, and educated there. He
was perfectly rational, and would never believe in anything unless
he himself experienced it. His search for God or Truth began even
when he was a child. His search led him to Sri Ramakrishna [1836-
1886], who had practised all the spiritual paths with success, and
had realized that all paths lead to the same goal. Under his teacher,
Sri Ramakrishna, he got training in spirituality. Vivekananda
attained the highest experience in spiritual life very soon. Later, he
had countless spiritual experiences every day. He had Nirvikalpa
Samadhi several times. He then set about to understand the
condition of his country and the world at large. Vivekananda
travelled all over India and he understood that the world needed
positive, life-giving ideas and participated in the Parliament of
Religions in Chicago in 1893.
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Vivekananda declared the necessity of the harmony of
religions there. He was the first prophet to declare this.
Apart from this, Vivekananda had the heart of the
universal mother. He wept to see the pitiable condition of
the people—some suffering from want of food and
clothing, some suffering from want of peace, some
suffering from other problems.
Why were people suffering? Ignorance was the answer.
Vivekananda understood that the solution to all problems
was in understanding our true nature. We are not the
body, or the mind. We are the eternal Self, the Atman.
Not knowing our reality, we hold on to false things and go
on suffering in life. Vivekananda therefore called upon
humanity to give up negative notions and know the truth
about ourselves. His words are powerful—coming SkebÀas theymeefÜÒee yengOee Jeo
are from the mouth of the prophet. Let us read them, and
emulate them in our lives.

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This life is precious.
We are wasting this precious life in ordinary,
meaningless things and enjoyments.
Let us seek something meaningful.
Let us go forward to know greater things.
Let us once and for all give up the idea that
we are sinners, useless people, and so on.
Let us know that we are the Atman.
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.

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“Narendra
Who is Swamibelonged to a very high plane – the realm of the Absolute.
Vivekananda?
“I had a vision of the Indivisible Satchidananda inside it was seated
Narendra immersed in Samadhi.
“Narendra is perfect from his very birth.
“He walks with the unsheathed sword of knowledge.
“The burning fire of purity and knowledge in him burns out everything
that comes into his orbit, just as an all-consuming fire burns out even
the Banana tree. He is a blazing, roaring fire consuming all impurities
to ashes.
“Naren will teach the world, when he will thunder with the voice of
God both at home and abroad. Su l¡d fËjju£ ele m¡L ¢nr ¢ch SMe Ol h¡¢ql q¡yL
“He has eighteen extraordinary powers, one or two of¢ch Suare
which l¡dz
sufficient to make a man
famous in the world.”
(Sri Ramakrishna on Narendranath Dutta later Swami Vivekananda)

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Patriot-Saint Vivekananda was a CONDENSED INDIA – Sister Nivedita
Real FATHER OF INDIAN NATIONALISM

– Bal Gangadhar Tilak
A Yogi of highest spiritual level in direct communion with the

truth who had for the time being consecrated his whole life to
the moral and spiritual uplift of his nation and of humanity. The
foundation of the present freedom movement owes its origin to
Swamiji’s message.
– Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
He was barely thirty, young with an ageless youth and yet withal old with the wisdom of
the ancient times.

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Vivekananda I believe in patriotism, and I also have my own ideal of patriotism.
Patriot-Saint Three things are necessary for great achievements :
First, feel from the heart. What is in the intellect or reason? It
goes a few steps and there it stops. But through the heart comes
inspiration.
Love opens the most impossible gates; love is the gate to all the
secrets in the universe. Feel, therefore, my would-be reformers,
my would-be patriots! Do you feel? Do you feel that the millions
and millions of the descendants of gods and of sages have become
next-door neighbours to brutes? Do you feel that millions have
been starving today, and millions have been starving for ages? Do
you feel that ignorance has come over the land as a dark cloud?
Does it make you restless? Does it make you sleepless? Has it
gone over your blood, coursing through your veins, becoming consonant with your heart-
beats? Has it made you almost mad? Are you seized with the one idea of misery and ruin,
and have you forgotten all about your name, your fame, your wives, your children, your
property, even your own bodies? Have you done that? This is the first step to become a
patriot, the very first step.......

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Vivekananda You may feel, then; but instead of spending your energies on
Patriot-Saint frothy talk, have you found any way out, any practical solution,
some help instead of condemnation, some sweet words to soothe
their miseries, to bring them out of this living death?
Yet that is not all. Have you got the will to surmount mountain
high obstructions?
If the whole world stands against you sword in hand, would you
still dare to do what you think is right? If your wife and children
are against you, if all your money goes, your name dies, your
wealth vanishes, would you still stick to it? Would you still pursue
it and go on steadily towards your own goal? As the great King
Bhartruhari says :
“Let the sages blame or let them praise; let the goddess of fortune come or let her go
wherever she likes; let death come today, or let it come after millions of years; he indeed
is the steady man who does not move one inch from the way of truth.” (Niti-sataka, verse 74)
Have you got that steadfastness?
If you have these three things, each one of you will make miracles.

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WhoProphet of Holy-Land: India
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 Prophet of Divinity of Man
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“This is the
Prophet land from whence,
of Holy-Land: Bharat like the tidal waves, spirituality and
philosophy have again and again rushed out and deluded the world,
and this is the land from whence, once more such tides must
proceed in order to bring life and vigour into the decaying races of
mankind. It is the same India, which has withstood the shocks of
hundreds 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.
“I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself but
on account of my ancestry.
“Our heroes must be spiritual. Such a hero has been given to us in the person of
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. If this nation wants to rise, take my word for it, it will have to
rally enthusiastically round this name.”

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“National
Prophet ofunion in India Bharat
Holy-Land: must be a gathering up of its sacred
spiritual forces. A nation in India must be a union of those whose
hearts beat to the same spiritual tune. For the sake of the national
life, you have to get a hold on spirituality and keep to it.
“If you give up that spirituality, leaving it aside, and rush after the
materializing civilizations of the West, the result will be that in
three generations you will be an extinct race.
“India’s gift to the world is light spiritual.”- Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda saved Hinduism and saved India. But for him we would have lost our
religion, and would not have gained our freedom. We, therefore owe everything to Swami
Vivekananda. May his faith, his courage and his wisdom ever inspire us so that we can keep
safe the treasure we have received from him – C. Rajagopalachari

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“The debtofwhich
Prophet the world
Holy-Land: owes to our Motherland is immense.
Bharat
Taking country with country, there is not one race on this earth to
which the world owes so much as to the patient Hindu, the mild
Hindu. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist,
when Rome was not thought of, when the very fathers of the
modern Europeans lived in the forests and pained themselves blue.
Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not
peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from then until now,
ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has
been spoken with a blessing behind it, and peace before it.”
India will be raised, not with the power of flesh, but with the power of the spirit; not with the
flag of destruction, but with the flag of peace and love. One vision I see clear as life before me,
that the ancient Mother has awakened once more, sitting on Her throne--rejuvenated, more
glorious than ever. Proclaim Her to all the world with the voice of peace and benediction.

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“Let NewofIndia
Prophet arise—out
Holy-Land: of the peasants’ cottage, grasping the
Bharat
plough; out of the huts of the fisherman, the cobbler and the
sweeper. Let her spring from the grocer’s shop, from beside the
oven of the fritter-seller, Let her emanate from the factory, from
marts, and from markets. Let her emanate from groves and forests,
from hills and mountains.”
“The more, therefore, the Hindus study the past, the more glorious
will be their future, and whoever tries to bring their past to the door
of everyone, is a great benefactor to his nation. The degeneration
of India came not because the laws and customs of the ancients
were bad, but because they were not allowed to be carried to their
legitimate conclusions.”
“The national ideals of India are RENUNCIATION and SERVICE. Intensify her in those
channels, and the rest will take care of itself.”

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“Let us work
Prophet hard, my brethren;
of Holy-Land: Bharat this is no time for sleep. On our
work depends the coming of the India of the future. She is there
already waiting. She is only sleeping. Arise and awake, and see her
seated here, on her eternal throne, rejuvenated, more glorious than
she ever was—this Motherland of ours.”
“Utter no words of condemnation, close your lips, and let your
hearts open. Work out the salvation of this land and the whole
world, each of you thinking that the entire burden is on your
shoulders. Carry the light and the life of the Vedanta to every
door, and rouse up the divinity that is hidden within every soul.”
“Make your nerves strong. What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept
long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men.”
“My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my
workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions. I have formulated the idea and have
given my life to it. They will spread from centre to centre, until we have covered the whole of
India”
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“O India!of
Prophet Forget not thatBharat
Holy-Land: the ideal of thy womanhood is Sita,
Savitri, Damayanti; forget not that the God thou worshippest is the
great ascetic of ascetics, the all-renouncing Shankara, the Lord of
Uma; forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for
sense pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness; forget
not that thou art born as a sacrifice to the Mother’s altar; …forget
not that the lower classes, the ignorant, the poor, the illiterate, the
cobbler, the sweeper, are thy flesh and blood, thy brothers.
“You must not depend on any foreign help. Nations like
individuals, must help themselves. This is real patriotism. If a
nation cannot do that, its time has not yet come. It must wait.
“Work unto death—I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life
comes and goes—wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die
on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!”

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"Hear,
Prophet yeof
children of of
Divinity immortal
Man bliss! Even ye that reside in higher
spheres! I have found the Ancient One who is beyond all darkness,
all delusion: knowing Him alone you shall be saved from death
over again."
Þe=CJevleg efJeées Dece=lem³e Heg$ee Dee ³es
Oeeceeefve efoJ³eeefve lemLegë~
Jesoencesleb Heg©<eb cenevleb Deeefol³eJeCe¥
lecemeë
"Children of Hejmleeled~
immortal bliss" -- what a sweet, what a hopeful name!
lecesJe
Allow efJeefolJeeefle
me to call you, brethren, ce=l³egcesefle
by that sweet name -- veev³eë
heirs of immortal
bliss
HevLee-- yea, the Hindu refuses to call you sinners.
efJeÐelesç³evee³e~~ Ye are the Children of
- éesleeéelejesHeefve<eod
God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. Ye divinities
on earth -- sinners! It is a sin to call a man so; it is a standing libel on
human nature. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are
sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not
matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of
matter.

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“Each
Prophetsoul
of isDivinity
potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this
of Man
divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this
either by works, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy—by
one, or more, or all of these—and be free. This is the whole of
religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or
forms, are but secondary details.”
“Go and preach to all: ‘Arise, awake, sleep no more; within each
of you, there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries.
Believe this, and that power will be manifested.’ If you can think
that infinite power, infinite knowledge, and indomitable energy lie
within you, and if you can bring out that power, you also can
become like me.”
“This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being.
Man is higher than all animals, than all angels; none is greater than man.”

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“I go forth,
Prophet of to preach religion
Universal of which Buddhism is nothing but
Hinduism
a rebel child and Christianity, with all her pretensions, only a
distant echo.”
“I shall go to the Mosque of the Mohammedan; I shall enter the
Christian’s church and kneel before his crucifix; I shall enter the
Buddhist temple, where I shall take refuge in Buddha and in his
law. I shall go into the forest and sit down in meditation with the
Hindu, who is trying to see the Light which enlightens the heart
of everyone.”
Vivekananda is not a Brahmin, is not a Buddhist, is not a Parsee,
is not a Mohammedan. He may be said to represent the best in
all of these. He speaks for the Universal Truth or the unification
of all truth. – Free Press, USA. Oct 05,1893
“His religion goes beyond the limits of creed”. – Rabbi Grossman, in Detroit
“Vivekananda speaks to Humanity”. – Romaine Rolland

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Saviour-prophet of the masses
During Vivekananda’s second visit to Dakshineshwar Sri Ramakrishna
stood before before him with folded palms and
showing him the regard due to god he said,
“I know, Lord, you are that ancient
Rishi Narayana in the form of
Nara [man]; you have again
incarnated your self in order to
remove the distress of mankind.”
Sri Ramakrishna
“I have lost all wish for my salvation, I never wanted earthly enjoyments; and may I be born
again and again and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that
exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls; and above all, my God the wicked,
my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my
worship” – Swami Vivekananda

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Let each one of us pray
Saviour-prophet daymasses
of the and night for the downtrodden millions in India—who are held fast
by poverty, priest-craft, and tyranny—pray day and night for them; I care more to preach
religion to them than to rich. I am poor, I love the poor.
Let new India arise… Let her arise – out of peasants’ cottages, grasping the plough, out of the
huts of fisherman, the cobbler and the sweeper. Let her spring from the grocer’s shop, from
beside the oven of the fritter-seller. Let her emanate from groves and forests, from hills and
mountains.
Education, education, education alone! Travelling through many cities of Europe and observing
in them the comforts and education of even the poor people, there was brought to my mind
the state of our own poor people, and I used to shed tears. What made the difference?
EDUCATION was the answer I got.
The only service to be done for our lower classes is to give them education, to develop their lost
individuality. Give them ideas—that is the only help they require, and then the rest must
follow as the effect. Ours is to put the chemicals together, the crystallization comes in the law
of nature. If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him.

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of the mother power The very peculiarity of Hindu women which they have developed
and which is the ideal of their life, is that of the mother.
The mother is the God in our family. The idea is that the only real
love that we see in the world, the most unselfish love is in the
mother–always suffering, always loving. And what love can
represent the love of God more than the love, which we see in the
mother? Thus the mother is the incarnation of God in earth to the
Hindu.
The ideal of perfect womanhood is total independence. The central
idea of the life of modern Hindu lady is her chastity.
Total freedom and independence is the symbol of total womanhood.

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prophet of time
At the present the God
mother
shouldpower
be worshipped as ‘Mother’, the
infinite energy. This will lead to purity, and tremendous energy
will come… We have to become Vedantists and live this grand
thought; the masses must get it. The new cycle must see the
masses living Vedanta, and this will have to come through women.
Why is it that our country is the weakest and the most backward of
all countries?—Because Shakti is held in dishonour there.
“³e$e vee³e&mleg Hetp³evles jcevles le$e osJeleeë~” gods
are pleased where
women are held in esteem”—says the old Manu.
The women of India must grow and develop in the footprints of
Sita, and that is the only way. Any attempt to modernise our
women, if it tries to take our women away from that ideal of Sita,
is immediately a failure, as we see every day.

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Vivekananda-prophet with
a message for the west “I have a message for the West as Buddha had a message for
the East”
“The whole of the Western civilisation will crumble to pieces in
the next fifty years if there is no spiritual foundation. Europe,
the centre of manifestation of material energy, will crumble into
dust within fifty years if she is not mindful to change her
position, to shift her ground and make spirituality the basis of
her life. And what will save Europe is the religion of the
Upanishads.”
“The power to satisfy our desires is increased in arithmetical
progression, the power of desire is increased in geometrical
progression.”
This great Hindu cyclone has shaken the world. (Californians said about Swami Vivekananda)

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Success
“One ofPrinciples
the greatest lessons I have learned in my life is to pay as much
attention to the means of work as to its end. I have been always
learning great lessons from that one principle, and it appears to me that
all the secret of success is there: to pay as much attention to the means
as to the end.”
“There is the danger of frittering away your energies by taking up an
idea only for its novelty, and then giving it up for another that is newer.
Take one thing up and do it, and see the end of it, and before you have
seen the end, do not give it up.”
“Take up one idea, make that one idea your life, think of it, dream of it,
live of it, let the brain, muscle, nerves, every part of your body be full
of that idea and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way great
spiritual giants are produced, others are mere talking machines”

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Success
“He whoPrinciples
can become mad with an idea, he alone sees light.
Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never
attain anything. They may titillate their nerves for a moment, but
there it will end.”
“Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be
a master. Avoid this jealousy, and you will do great works that
have yet to be done”
“Nature wants us to react, to return blow for blow, cheating for
cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might, then it
requires a super divine power not hit back, to keep control, to be
unattached”
“Misery comes through attachment, not through work. As soon as we identify ourselves with
work we do, we feel miserable; but if we don’t identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that
misery”

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Success Principles “The great secret of true success, of true happiness, then, is this: the
man who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish man, is the most
successful. It seems to be a paradox. Do we not know that every
man who is unselfish in life gets cheated, gets hurt? Apparently,
yes. "Christ was unselfish, and yet he was crucified." True, but we
know that his unselfishness is the reason, the cause of a great
victory -- the crowning of millions upon millions of lives with the
blessings of true success.”
“The Upanishads have declared, "Arise! Awake! and stop not until
the goal is reached." We will then certainly cross the path, sharp as
it is like the razor, and long and distant and difficult though it be.
Man becomes the master of gods and demons. No one is to blame
for our miseries but ourselves.”

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Success
ThreePrinciples
things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great:
1. Conviction of the powers of goodness.
2. Absence of jealousy and suspicion.
3. Helping all who are trying to be good and do good.
“Do not recognize wickedness in others. Wickedness is ignorance,

weakness. What is the good of telling people they are weak?
Criticism and destruction are of no avail. We must give them
something higher; tell them of their own glorious nature, their
birthright.”
Unselfishness is more paying but people have little patience to practice it.
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Faith and Strength “If there is any sin in the world, it is weakness;
avoid all weakness, for weakness is sin, weakness is
death”
“Strength is life, Weakness is death”
“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak”
“Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single
religious book, without going into a single Church or Temple or Mosque”
“He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religion said that he was an atheist
who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in
himself”

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Man theup,
“Stand maker of his
be bold, own destiny
be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your
own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own
destiny”
“All the power is within you; you can do anything and everything.
Believe in that; don’t believe that you are weak. Stand up and
express the divinity within you”
“What ever you think, that you will be. If you think yourself weak,
weak you will be; if you think yourself strong; strong you will be”

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Aim of Education:
education
Education is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.
We must have life-building, man-making, character-making
assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and
made your life and character you have more education than any
man who has got by heart a whole library. We want that
education by which character is formed, strength of mind is
increased, intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on
one’s own feet.
Method of Education:
To me the very essence of education is concentration of mind,
not the collecting of facts. If I had to do my education over
again, and had any voice in the matter, I would not study facts at
all I would develop the power of concentration and detachment,
and then with the perfect instrument I could collect facts at will.

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Curriculum:
education
In ancient times, people used to go to sages to learn wisdom
and to get answers to the fundamental questions of life. This
was seen in all ancient civilizations-Greece, India and China in
particular. However, over the centuries education has retreated
from that position. We no longer claim to give wisdom, we
give only information, our schools no longer give moral and
spiritual values, only secular subjects are taught.
Role of the Teacher:
The only true teacher is he who can immediately come down to
the level of the student and transfer his soul to the student’s
soul and see through the student’s eyes and here through his
ears and understand through his mind. Such a teacher can
really teach and none else. …The only duty of the teacher is to
remove all obstructions from the way.

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Discipline:
education
Another thing that we want is the abolition of that system
which aims at educating our boys in the same manner as that
of the man who battered his ass, being advised that it could
thereby be turned into a horse… We must give only positive
ideas. Negative ideas weaken men.
Do you not find that where parents are constantly taxing their
sons to read and write, telling them they will never learn
anything, and calling them fools and so forth, the latter do
actually turn out to be so in many cases?
If you speak kind words to boys and encourage them, they
are bound to improve in time.
Education is not the amount of information that is put into
your brain and runs riot there undigested all your life.

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Religion and ethics
Unselfishness is God.
Religion is the idea which is raising the brute unto man, and man unto God.
The definition of God and man: Man is an infinite circle whose circumference is nowhere, but
the centre is located in one spot; and God is an infinite circle whose circumference is nowhere,
but whose centre is everywhere.
The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness.
The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness—that makes
him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power,
without holiness, makes human beings devils.
View of Belur Math from the Ganga

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Religion andwhich
Virtue is that ethicstends to our improvement, and vice to our degeneration. Man is made up
of three qualities—brutal, human, and godly. That which tends to increase the divinity in you
is virtue, and that which tends to increase brutality in you is vice. You must kill the brutal
nature and become human, that is loving and charitable. You must transcend that too and
become pure bliss, Satchidananda, fire without burning, wonderfully loving, but without the
weakness of human love, without the feeling of misery.
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
The ideal of Vedanta is to know man as he really is, and this is its message, that if you cannot
worship your brother man, the manifested God, how can you worship a God who is
unmanifested?
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“Let the dead past bury its dead.” The infinite future is before you, and
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you must always remember that each word, thought, and deed, lays up a
store for you and that as the bad thoughts and bad works are ready to
spring upon you like tigers, so also there is the inspiring hope that the
good thoughts and good deeds are ready with the power of a hundred
thousand angels to defend you always and for ever.
Therefore, stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on
your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own
destiny. All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves.
Therefore, make your own future.
The dead never return; the past night does not reappear; a spent-up tidal wave does not rise
anew; neither does man inhabit the same body over again. So from the worship of the dead past,
O man, we invite you to the worship of the living present; from the regretful brooding over
bygones, we invite you to the activities of the present; from the waste of energy in retracing lost
and demolished pathways, we call you back to broad new-laid highways lying very near. He that
is wise, let him understand.

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meditations
Why are we here?

We came here to sip the honey, and we find our hands and feet sticking to it.
We are caught, though we came to catch. 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. ...That is the one
cause of misery: we are attached, we are being caught.
Therefore says the Gita:
‘Work constantly; work, but be not attached; be not caught.’

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There is hope for all. None can die; none can be degraded
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forever. Life is but a playground, however gross the play may be.
However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we
may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that
Infinite.
Here we are in this world, and our nature rebels against it. But let
us repeat, “I am It [the Self]; I am It. I have no fear, nor doubt,
nor death. I have no sex, nor creed, nor colour. What creed can I
have? What sect is there to which I should belong? What sect can
hold me? I am in every sect!”
However much the body rebels, however much the mind rebels,
in the midst of the uttermost darkness, in the midst of agonizing
tortures, in the uttermost despair, repeat this, once, twice, thrice,
ever more. Light comes gently, slowly, but surely it comes.

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Onward! Upon ages of struggle a character is built. Be not
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discouraged. One word of truth can never be lost; for ages it may be
hidden under rubbish, but it will show itself sooner or later. Truth is
indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible.
What makes the difference between man and man is the difference
in this Shrddha [faith] and nothing else. What makes one man great
and another weak and low is this Shrddha. Be strong and have this
Shrddha, and everything else is bound to follow.
Many times I have been in the jaws of death, starving, footsore, and weary; for days and days I
had had no food, and often could walk no farther; I would sink down under a tree, and life would
seem ebbing away. I could not speak, I could scarcely think, but at last the mind reverted to the
idea: “I have no fear nor death; I never hunger nor thirst. I am It! I am It! The whole of nature
cannot crush me; it is my servant. Assert thy strength, thou Lord of lords and God of gods!
Regain thy lost empire! Arise and awake and stop not!” And I would rise up, reinvigorated, and
here am I, living, today.

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Every man should take up his own ideal and endeavour to
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accomplish it. That is a surer way of progress than taking up other
men’s ideals, which he can never hope to accomplish.
... Let every one do the best he can for realising his own ideal. Nor
is it right that I should be judged by your standard or you by mine.
The apple tree should not be judged by the standard of the oak, nor
the oak by that of the apple. To judge the apple tree you must take
the apple standard, and for the oak, its own standard.
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his
own highest ideal, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as
near as possible to the truth.
The truth of the ideal is in the practical. The fruition of the ideal has
been through the sensing of the practical. That the ideal is there is a
proof of the existence of the practical somehow, somewhere. The ideal may be vaster, yet it is
the multiplication of little bits of the practical. The ideal mostly is the summed-up, generalised,
practical units.
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meditations The power of the ideal is in the practical. Its work on us
is in and through the practical. Through the practical, the
ideal is brought down to our sense-perception, changed
into a form fit for our assimilation. Of the practical we
make the steps to rise to the ideal. On that we build our
hopes; it gives us courage to work.
One man who manifests the ideal in his life is more
powerful than legions whose words can paint it in the
most beautiful colours and spin out the finest principles.
Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor
fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that
cleave through adamantine walls of
difference.

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You cannot
Service help anyone,
to man youtocan
is service godonly serve; serve the children
of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege. If
the Lord grants that you can help any one of His children,
blessed you are; do not think too much of yourselves. Blessed
you are that that privilege was given to you when others had it
not. Do it only as worship.
My boy, if you have any respect for my words, the first thing I
will advise you to do is to throw open all the doors and windows
of your room. In your quarter there are lots of poor people sunk
in degradation and misery. You will have to go to them with
your zeal and enthusiasm. Arrange to distribute medicines to
those who are sick, and nurse them with all care, supply food to
him who is starving, teach with as much as lies in you the
ignorant; and if you begin to serve your brethren in this wise, I
tell you, my child, you will surely get peace and consolation.

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