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"Have you the courage to face any hurdles, however formidable? Have you the determination to pursue your goal, even if those near and dear to you oppose you? You can be free men only if you have confidence in yourselves. You should develop a strong physique. You should shape your mind through study and mediation. Only then will victory be yours." "I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of the dust of this land seems sacred to me."
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stop becoming weak
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Strength, Strength, it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause and that is our weakness.with weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.
Never be weak. You must be strong. you have infinite strength within you.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is a sin, this is the only sin - to say that you are weak.
The only saint is that soul that never weakens and faces everything.
All weakness, all bondage is imagination... do not weaken!...Stand up and be strong! that is all the religion I know.
Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word,weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil-doing; It is the weakness that is the source of all selfsishness; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality.
The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life.weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. weakness is death. There are hundreds and thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! they dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until mind is weakened.
This is great fact; strength is life, weakness is death. strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery; weakness is death You must retain great strength in your mind and words. "I am low, I am low" - repeating these ideas in mind, man belittles and degrades himself.
. Sin may b said to be the feeling of every kind of weakness. From this weakness spring jealousy, malice and so forth. hence weakness is sin.
what we want is strength, so believe in yourself..make your nerves strong. what we want is muscle of iron and nerves of steel. we have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your own feet and be men.
what is sin and what is misery and what are all these , but the result of weakness?..men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are glorious children of immortality, even those who are weakets in manifestation. let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brain from very childhood. lay yourselves open to
these thoughts and not to weakening and paralysing ones.
First build up your physique and then only you can control over mind.
. It is very easy to say, "hate nobody, resist not evil" but we know that what kind of thing generally means in practise. when the eyes of society are turned towards us, we may make a show of non-resistence, but in our hearts it is canker all the time.. This is hypocrisy and will serve no purpose.
Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady intellect... " Never allow weakness to overtake your mind.
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"Brothers and sisters, the long night is at last drawing to a close. Miseries and sorrows are disappearing. Ours is a sacred country. She is gradually waking up, thanks to the fresh breeze all around. Her might no one can overcome.""Are you prepared for all sacrifices for the sake of our motherland? If you are, then you can rid the land of poverty and ignorance. Do you know that millions of our countrymen are starving and miserable? Do you feel for them? Do you so much as shed a tear for them?" Love opens the most impossible gates; love is the gate to all the secrets in the universe. Feel, therefore, my would-be reformers, my would-be patriots! Do you feel? Do you feel that the millions and millions of the descendants of gods and of sages have become next-door neighbours to brutes? Do you feel that millions have been starving today, and millions have been starving for ages? Do you feel that ignorance has come over the land as a dark crowd? Does it make you restless? Does it make you sleepless? Has it gone over your blood, coursing through your veins, becoming consonanant with your heart-beats? Has it made you almost mad? Are you seized with the one idea of misery and ruin, and have you forgotten all about your name, your fame, your wives, your children, your property, even your own bodies? Have you done that? This is the first step to become a patriot, the very first step.......
The fear of death can only be conquered when man realises that so long as there is one life in this universe, he is living. When he can say, "I am in everything, in everybody, I am in all lives, I am the universe," then alone comes the state of fearlessness
Have faith in Guru, in his teachings, and in the surety that you can get free. Think day and night that this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free
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POWER OF CHARACTER
"Neither money pays, nor name, nor fame, nor learning; it is character that can cleave through adamantine walls of difficulties." C.W. Vol.7, p.487 (CW means Swami Vivekananda's Complete Works; Published from Advaita Ashrama, Kolkata)
"Wait, money does not pay, nor name; fame does not pay, nor learning. It is love that pays; it is character that cleaves its way through adamantine walls of difficulties." C.W. Vol. 4, p.367
"And what remains of man?" was asked of the Master. "Everything -- everything. But what is in the man? Not the body not the soul, but character. And that is left for all ages. All that have passed and died, they have left for us their characters, eternal possessions for the rest of humanity; and these characters are working -- working all through." What of Buddha? What of Jesus of Nazareth? The world is full of their characters. Tremendous doctrine!" C.W. Vol.3, p. 530
power of truth
“I will compare truth to a corrosive substance of infinite power. It burns its way in wherever it falls — in soft substance at once, hard granite slowly, but it must. What is writ is writ.” C.W. Vol. 5, p.71 “Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die. Societies should be moulded upon truth, and truth has not to adjust itself to society. If such a noble truth as unselfishness cannot be practised in society, it is better for man to give up society and go into the forest.” C.W. Vol. 2, p.84 “Truth is strengthening. Truth is purity, truth is all - knowledge; truth must be strengthening, must be enlightening, must be invigorating.” C.W. Vol.3, p.225 “Truth is infinitely more weighty than untruth; so is goodness. If you possess these, they will make their way by sheer gravity.” C.W. Vol. 5, p.65 “Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.” C.W. Vol. 5, p.410 “Be bold! My children should be brave, above all. Not the least compromise on any account. Preach the highest truths broadcast. Do not fear losing your respect or causing unhappy friction. Rest assured that if you serve truth in spite of temptations to forsake it, you will attain a heavenly strength in the face of which men will quail to speak before you things which you do not believe to be true. People will be convinced of what you will say to them if you can strictly serve truth for fourteen years continually, without swerving from it.” C.W. Vol. 5, p.264-65
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