70 quotes found
“Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.”
“You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.”
“Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These institutions have been necessary to protect us as a nation, and when this necessity for self-prese...”
“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only...”
“The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the...”
“Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.”
“Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic sidein wave-like motions following each other. ...At one time the full flood of materialistic ideas ...”
“How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselve...”
“External nature is only internal nature writ large.”
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
“May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to ca...”
“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
“God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.”
“Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.”
“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”
“The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power...”
“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”
“The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everythin...”
“As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.”
“Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.”
