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- Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.
- I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.
- Jesus Christ was willing to admit every good man to the family of God. It is not the man who believes a certain something, but…
- "Why should I become angry just because another man has made a fool of himself. Do thou resist not evil!" That is what the lovers…
- Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like…
- Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.
- Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being…
- Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of…
- Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I grow older that…
- One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He…
- Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used to say, attachment…
- Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.
- To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down…
- In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.
- The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body,…
- Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited…
- Every Hindu knows that astrologers try to fix the caste of every boy or girl as soon as he or she is born. That is…
- The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if it does so;…
- Ours is the only religion that does not depend on a person or persons; it is based upon principles. At the same time there is…
- One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.
- The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it…
- This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that…
- It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
- Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing,…
- What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.
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