Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAFear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
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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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Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
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You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.
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Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.
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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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You are strong, omnipotent, and omniscient. No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you. All knowledge is in you, all power, all purity, and all freedom-why cannot you express this knowledge? Because you do not believe in it. Believe in it, and it must and will come out.
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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that’s all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise – apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins.
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Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.
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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.
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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
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I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion – it is India.
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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
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In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God’s feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.
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There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no ‘you’ or ‘me’; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence – God.
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If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
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Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.
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Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.
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