1. We must have faith in ourselves, we must become world-movers, for everything is within us.
2. Hundreds will fall in the struggle, hundreds will be ready to take it up; each one will have to save himself, each one to do his own work.
3. None of us can get anything other than what we fix our hearts upon.
1. The misery that we suffer comes from ignorance, from fear, from unsatisfied desire, from non-discrimination between the real and the unreal.
2. All the misery of the world is caused by the slavery to the senses, caused by sin, and by no other cause.
3. All the misery we have is of our own choosing, and there is no misery where there is no want.
1. It is a very dificult task to take on the role of a leader; there must not be a shade of jealousy or selfishness, then you are a leader.
2. There is no allegiance possible when there is no character in the leader, and perfect purity ensures the most lasting allegiance and confidence.
3. A leader must be impersonal, and not every one is born to lead; the best leader, however, is one who "leads like the baby".
1. Fear is a sign of weakness, the greatest cause of misery in the world, and the moment you fear, you are nobody.
2. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life, fear is the greatest of all superstitions.
3. It s fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil, fear that causes degradaton and sin.
4. Because Nature is selfless, it is strong and fearless, for only to selfishness comes fear, and when fear ceases, then alone come perfect happiness and perfect love.
1. Faith is not belief; it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination, and he who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
2. A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too, as it is one of the potent factors of humanity and of all religions, and it is faith that makes a lion of a man.
3. So long as you have faith in your guru, teacher and guide, nothing will be able to obstruct your way, and this reverence must enter into you.
1. There is no such thing as failure in the universe.
2. There is success and failure in every work.
3. The degree of unselfishness alone marks the degree of success everywhere.
1. Evil exists, and there is no shirking the fact that each is responsible for the evil anywhere in the world, but there is nothing that is absolutely evil; darkness is less light, evil is less good, impurity is less purity.
2. The cause of evil is our desire to be superior to others and our selfishness; force against force never cures, and the only cure for evil is unselfishness.
3. This "me and mine" is the very root of all the evil in the world, and the evils that are in the world are caused by none else but ourselves.
4. Every reaction in the form of hatred or evil is so much loss to the mind; in doing evil we injure ourselves and others also.
5. Every evil thought or deed of hatred or any thought of reaction, if it is controlled, will be laid in our favour.
1. Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts, but the manifestation of the perfection already in man.
2. It is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested, all your life, but the concentration of mind.
3. We want real education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.
4. If the poor cannot come to education, education must reach them at the plough, in the factory, everywhere.
5. There is only one purpose in the whole of life - education.
1. No duty is ugly, no duty is impure, each duty has its own place, and according to the circumstances in which we are placed, we must perform our duties.
2. Duty is sweet only through love, love shines in freedom alone, and only true duty is to be unattached and to work as free beings.
3. Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest ideal, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
4. Every duty is holy, and devotion to duty is the highest form of the worship of God; it is certainly a source of great help in enlightening and emancipating the deluded and ignorance-encumbered souls.
5. Ours are the duties; let the fruits take care of themselves.
1. There is no limit to man's desires; he goes on desiring and when he comes to a point where desire cannot be fulfilled, the result is pain.
2. Desire is without beginning, is infinite, its fulfilment limited, and it will not come unless there is something outside to fulfil it.
3. The satisfaction of desire only increases it, as oil poured on fire, but makes it burn more fiercely.
4. Our desires also are constantly changing - what we would prize today we would reject tomorrow - and this what binds us to makes slaves of us.
5. Desire, want, is the father of all misery, and while we hope for anything, it still rules us.
6. It is the "desireless" who bring great results to pass.
1. It is culture that can withstand shocks, not a simple mass of knowledge.
2. It is spiritual culture and ethical culture alone that can change wrong racial tendencies for the better.
3. There must come culture into the blood.
4. The finer the organism, the higher the culture.
1. The hand was made to give always, and charity never fails.
2. Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it to be for the good of many, give it to all.
3. There is no higher virtue than charity.
4. For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, great-souled men take their birth.
1. It is character that cleaves its way through adamant walls of difficulties, and it gets built through great struggle.
2. Character is repetition of habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.
3. Character establishes itself through a thousand stumbles, and it is character alone that pays everywhere.
4. The heart never reacting, this is what builds character.
1. The power of concentration is the only key to the treasurehouse of knowledge.
2. Concentration is the essence of all knowledge.
3. Along with development of concentration, we must develop power of detachment.
4. Almost all our suffering is caused by not having power of detachment.
5. There come moments in our life when we feel our play is finished, but the fruit falls from the tree only when it gets ripe.
6. Unto him comes everything, who does not care for anything.
1. Attachment comes only where we expect a return.
2. Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.
3. As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, all misery and pain come from attachment towards it.
4. Our misery comes not from work, but by our getting attached to something.
5. If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.
1. Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of egotism.
2. Even after attaining the highest position, we should remain humble by staying away from arrogance.
3. We can win everyone's heart with humility.
4. By humility, we can also make our enemies our own.
5. Therefore, this rascal ego has to be obliterated.