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Mystic · Indian · 1836–1886
Indian mystic (1836–1886)
“Let's not go into the past.”
“As long as I live, so long do I learn.”
“If you want to go east, don't go west.”
“When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.”
“Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.”
“It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.”
“Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.”
“What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy have been defiled, like food that has been touched by the tongue, f...”
“You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts pow...”
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every oth...”
“The personality of Muhammad, it is most difficult to get into the whole truth of it. Only a glimpse of it I can catch. What a dramatic succession of picturesque scenes! There is Muhammad, the Proph...”
“Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.”
“God has made different religions to suit different aspirants, times, and countries. All doctrines are only so many paths; but a path is by no means God himself. Indeed, one can reach God if one fol...”
“Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those...”
“That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.”
“You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your igno...”
“One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtu...”
“God has revealed to me that only the Paramatman, whom the Vedas describe as the Pure Soul, is as immutable as Mount Sumeru, unattached, and beyond pain and pleasure. There is much confusion in this...”
“To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.”
“Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.”
“Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.”
“People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.”
“Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is scienc...”
“I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?”
