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If you want to live, go back to Christ. You are not Christians. Go back to Christ. Go back to him who had nowhere to lay his head. Better be ready to live in rags with Christ than to live in palaces without him.

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It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.

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How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

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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 take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.

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Man is greater than the gods.

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The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

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Strength, strength for us. What we need is strength, who will give us strength? There are thousands to weaken us, and of stories we have had enough.

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When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

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A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.

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Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

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We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

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Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. Avoid all these. Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion. Is there any mystery in the Vedanta, or in the Vedas, or in the Samhitâs, or in the Puranas? What secret societies did the sages of yore establish to preach their religion? What sleight-of-hand tricks are there recorded as used by them to bring their grand truths to humanity?

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All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

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And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.

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There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.

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No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.

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One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

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Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles. If the principles are there, the persons will come by the thousands and millions. If the principle is safe, persons like Buddha will be born by the hundreds and thousands. But if the principle is lost and forgotten and the whole of national life tries to cling round a so-called historical person, woe unto that religion, danger unto that religion!

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The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.

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