After learning not to be disturbed by evil, we have to learn not to be made happy by good.
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Be brave and be sincere; then follow any path with devotion, and you must reach the Whole.
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Churches, doctrines, forms, are the hedges to protect the tender plant, but they must later be broken down that the plant may become a tree. So the various religions, Bibles, Vedas, dogmas - all are just tubs for the little plant; but it must get out of the tub.
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Look at the "ocean" and not at the "wave"; see no difference between ant, and angel. Every worm is the brother of the Nazarene. How say one is greater and one is less? Each is great in...[their]...own place. We are in the sun and in the stars as much as here.
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Life is and must be accompanined by evil.
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...living itself is just...lost equilibrium.
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Life and death are only different names for the same fact.
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While we recognise a God, it is really only the Self which we have separated ourselves from and worship as outside of us; but it is our true Self all the time - the one and only God.
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All eyes are Thine, yet Thou hast not an eye; all hands are Thine; yet Thou hast not a hand.
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...do not merely endure, be unattached.
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Go where people hate you, let them thrash the ego out of you, and you will get nearer to the Lord.
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The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king.
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Eternal progression is eternal bondage; annihilation of form is to be preferred.
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Good works are only valuable as a means of escape; they do good to the doer, never to any other.
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All we can do is to put down all desires...put down the lower self, commit mental suicide, as it were...
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Often, too, the...[one]...who laughs most is the one who suffers most.
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The fountain of all knowledge is in every one of us, in the ant as in the highest angel.
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The Light Divine within is obscured in most people. It is like a lamp in a cask of iron, no gleam of light can shine through. Gradually, by purity and unselfishness we can make the obscuring medium less and less dense, until at last it becomes as transparent as glass.
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God and the devil are the same river with the water flowing in opposite directions.
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The sum total of all the cells in an organism is one person; so each soul is like one cell and the sum of them is God, and beyond that is the Absolute.
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A bit of Mother, a drop, was Krishna, another was Buddha, another was Christ.
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Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. ...We cannot see outside what we are not inside.
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Christ and Buddha were the names of a state to be attained; Jesus and Gautama were the persons to manifest it.
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"There was a time when I was a woman and he was a man.
Still love grew until there was neither he nor I;
Only I remember faintly there was a time when there were two.
But love came between and made them one."
- Persian Sufi Poem
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The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ; so only those writings were preserved that suited the purpose in hand. Thus the books are not to be depended upon and book-worship is the worst kind of idolatry to bind our feet. All has to conform to the book - science, religion, philosophy; it is the most horrible tyranny of the Protestant Bible.
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All we know of animals is only by analogy, we judge them by what we do and feel ourselves.
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Blessed are those upon whom their sins are quickly visited, their account is the sooner balanced. Woe to those whose punishment is deferred, it is the greater.
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All hatred is killing the "Self by the self:, therefore love is the law of life.
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Vedanta says, you are free and not free at the same time - never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual.
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We see reality, but distorted by the medium through which we see it.
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The murderer is God, and the "clothing of murderer" is only superimposed...
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Heaven is a mere superstition arising from desire, and desire is ever a yoke, a degeneration.
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Reach a state where your very breathing is a prayer.
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Fearlessness is not possible as long as we have even God over us; we must be God.
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The idea of unthinking philosophers was that the mind was...simple, and this led them to believe in free-will. Psychology, the analysis of mind, shows the mind to be a compound, and every compound must be held together by some outside force; so the will is bound by the combination of outside forces. [We]...cannot even will to eat unless..[we are]...hungry. Will is subject to desire.
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The idea of duty is the midday sun of misery scorching the very soul.
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Devils are machines of darkness, angels are machines of light; but both are machines.
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Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance...
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You are God, and whatever else you may think is wrong.
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All struggles for the preservation of this illusive individuality are really vices. All struggles to lose this individuality are virtues.
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There is no difference between theories and atheism. In fact, the atheist is the truer...[person].
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Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.
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The whole ocean is present at the back of each wave, and all manifestations are waves, some very big, some small; yet all are the ocean in their essence, the whole ocean; but as waves each is a part.
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See Christ, then you will be a Christian. All else is talk.
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Cut down the banyan tree of desire with the axe of non-attachment, and it will vanish utterly. It is all illusion.
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Never want to go to heaven, that is the worst delusion.
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Bow down to nothing but your own higher Self. Until you know that you are the very God of the gods, there will never be any freedom for you.
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...do not call the little wave you have made "I"; know it for nothing but a wave.
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...let us make our bodies dead and cease to identify ourselves with them.
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Individuals who are to get freedom in this life have to live thousands of years in one lifetime.
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Only by the wave falling back into the sea can it become unlimited...
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Let the body die; this idea of body is but a worn-out fable.
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One who knows is willing to give up...[their]...body even for an ant, because...[they know]...that the body is nothing.
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...we chase the will-o'-the-wisp of happiness that always eludes us, and we only grind nature's mill, then die, merely to begin again.
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The dying thief on the cross reaped the effects of his past actions. He had been a Yogi and had slipped; then he had to be born again; again he slipped and became a thief; but the past good he had done bore fruit, and he met Jesus in the moment when liberation could come, and one word made him free.
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Beyond your sight, millions of universes are revolving at great distances.
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In food, in modes of life, in thought, and in language, energy has to be infused.
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...even if after understanding, you do not act accordingly, I shall know that you are wise in words only...
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Making the mind and the lips at one, the ideas have to be practised in life. This is what Shri Ramakrishna meant by "allowing no theft in the chamber of thought".
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Through concentration of mind everything can be accomplished - even mountains can be crushed to atoms.
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There is nothing wonderful in this universe. Ignorance constitutes the only darkness, which covers all things and makes them look mysterious. When everything is lighted by Knowledge, the sense of mystery vanishes from the face of things.
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...the scripture says..."You are that. Therefore This is verily your bondage that you are practising the attainment of Samadhi."
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Another thing. You must learn to make the physique very strong and teach the same to others. Don't you find me exercising every day with dumb-bells even now?
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...work has no power of directly manifesting the Atman, it is only effective in removing some veils that cover knowledge.
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"I am neither the body, nor the mind, nor the Buddhi (determinative faculty), neither the gross nor the subtle body" - by this process of elimination, immerse your mind in the transcendent knowledge which is your real nature. Kill the mind by thus plunging it repeatedly in this. Then only you will realise the Essence of Intelligence, or be established in your real nature.
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Whoever works at a thing with...[their]...whole heart receives help from God.
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...the few days that the body lasts, I will work for you. I shall die in harness.
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...having striven all my life to eat the kernel of Brahman, after throwing away the shell of Maya, how shall I now get the power of appreciating nature's beauties all of a sudden?
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Even a coward can easily give up...[their]...life, and the most selfish...[person]...behaves disinterestedly, when there is a multitude to cheer them on; but blessed indeed...[are they]...who manifest the same unselfishness and devotion to duty in the smallest of acts, unnoticed by all...
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...these scriptural statements which appear to the cursory view as contradictory, are meant for different grades of aspirants and are arranged in the order of evolution.
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Among thousands of men and women a few are inclined to something higher than this life. The others are like sheep.
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We have become bodies. That we are souls we have forgotten entirely.
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Everyone can play the role of a master, but it is very difficult to be a servant.
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"The highest duty consists in doing the little that lies in one's power, seeking neither death nor life, and biding one's time like a servant ready to do any behest."
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"While there is birth there is death, and again entering the mother's womb. This is the manifest evil of transmigration. How...dost thou want satisfaction in such a world?"
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The four Vedas, sciences, languages, philosophy, and all other learnings are only ornamental. The real learning, the true knowledge is that which enables us to reach...[God]...who is unchangeable in...[Its]...love.
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[That which]...is the Brahman of the Vedantins, Ishvara of the Naiyayikas, Purusha of the Sankhyas, cause of the Mimamsakas, law of the Buddhists, absolute zero of the Atheists, and love infinite unto those that love, may...[It]...take us all under...[Its]...merciful protection.
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No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules...
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The eternal, the infinite, the omnipresent, the omniscient is a principle, not a person. You, I, and everyone are but embodiments of that principle, and the more of this infinite principle is embodied in a person, the greater...[are they]...and all in the end will be the perfect embodiment of that and thus all will be one as they are now essentially.
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Come ye that are heavy laden and lay all your burden on me, and then do whatever you like and be happy and forget that I ever existed.
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