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- "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Can we see God? Of course not. Can we know God? Of course not.…
- 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…
- What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for…
- The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or…
- This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me…
- This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will…
- If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. ...Everyone says, "Woe unto you…
- Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith in man, whether…
- The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I…
- There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather together and react…
- When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.
- Non-injuring has to be attained by him who would be free. No one is more powerful than he who has attained perfect non-injuring. No one…
- The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying any heed to…
- Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the foundation upon which…
- Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature.
- Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.
- The Vedas give information on various subjects. They have come together and form one book. And in later times, when other subjects were separated from…
- The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.
- There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.
- Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.
- We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are…
- Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that very Jiva is…
- Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction…
- I reached Ghazipur three days ago. Here I am putting up in the house of Babu Satish Chandra Mukherji, a friend of my early age.…
- Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists.
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