2. Spirituality has nothing to do with miracles. God cannot be proved by matter nor do devotees need demonstration of magic.
3. Tagore failed to accept Ramakrishna as God-incarnate, although, he had immense reverence for him.
4. Vivekananda's perfect purity pulverised the West and won him friends and foes alike to set off the modern spiritual churn.
5. Beyond earthly dreams there is a realm that beckons man to ethereal flights. And that is the call of the Spirit.
6. Through the dark night flashes Thy lightning form, O Mother, I can scarce wait to see Thee.
7. The monk must be a fire of austerity without aught of earth tainting his self for him to have inspirational value for the laity.
8. Religion is the quest of the lost soul for the recovery of its roots.
9. Can imperfection in work be the path towards perfection of the Spirit?
10. Teach the Ramayana and the Mahabharata to children. Let their minds be impregnated with the glorious ideas vibrant in these epics.
11. The times are pregnant with possibilities of the descent of the Divine. All the symptoms are manifest. The Lord must be with us now.
12. Have faith in yourself. This is the constant refrain of the Vedanta. But exploration must be on to unravel the real Self, too.
13. Your life is not of two days, one of growth and the other of decay, but your life is everlasting, beyond this dual throng.
14. Give up this vain clinging to this little body of yours and a little mind attached to it and learn to assert your infinite Atman.
15. Let go of the phenomenal and the spiritual will shine through.
16. Unless Vivekananda's message is widely disseminated across the length and breadth of India, this nation will not rise.
17. Is there no end to worldliness masquerading as spirituality? Is there no end to effeminacy masquerading as culture?
18. Men preach without realisation. This is the problem. The words carry no weight for conviction there is none in the speaker himself.
19. Time is flying and death is ever approaching. Now is the hour to take His name and strive to see Him. The morrow may never be.
20. Save for the sake of 'Ramakrishna Mission, Viveknagar, Aalo'. This is our duty as devotees of Thakur-Ma-Swamiji.
21. Every child released into the world is one more temple of the divine that is to be consecrated, served and tended to fruition.
22. It is not good enough to live for oneself but one must incessantly strive to live for others as well. Help RKM, Vivekanagar, Aalo.
23. Of what use is life if it be not lived for others?
24. Do not give in to these fake Gurus by the galore who are preaching Hinduism, not even the ones with a great following. Fraudulent!
25. My blood boils when I see these fake 'Gurus' preaching their idiotic versions of the most stupendous philosophy on earth, Hinduism.
26. I am desisting from naming these fake 'Gurus', leaving it to your good sense and judgement to discover them.
27. Stop wasting money and start saving to help the Ramakrishna Mission, Viveknagar, Aalo combat their acute financial distress.
28. Do not waste human thought and resources pursuing the wild geese of worldliness.
29. This network of Maya is impossible to extricate oneself from but for the grace of the Mother who binds and frees.
30. Life is a baffling dream, a nightmare of sorts which infatuates the befuddled soul till death destroys.
31. An effective way of raising consciousness is to seek the company of the holy. Their sattva uplifts by vibration-exchange our selves.
32. Spirituality has nothing to do with miracles or magic. Come off it if you wish to be spiritual. Seek refuge in the real God.
33. God is God not merely because He is 'Creator, Preserver, Destroyer' but because He is 'Existence, Consciousness, Bliss'.
34. How difficult it is for some to get past the baggage of miracles and magic that camouflages as spirituality!
35. Do you take Thakur as the embodiment of power or of love? Well, Swamiji had once said about him,''He is LOVE personified.''
36. Intellectual attainment is far removed from spiritual realisation. The two are qualitatively quite apart.
37. The man of wisdom is the one who has broken free from the meshes of Maya.
38. Maya is the universal set of things phenomenal, events, relations, links, et al. It is the vast deception.
39. He went to the Baranagar Math to learn Math from Shashi Maharaj but stayed on to emerge a Rishi. Virajanandaji.
40. Sargachhi knows none better than this son of Thakur, Akhandananda of unsurpassed feeling for the masses dying of starvation.
41. Khoka Maharaj. Reclining on the veranda of Swamiji's house in Belur Math, this soul sublime used to contemplate what?
42. Ah, the motherly Mahapurush Maharaj! Who can match his longing for devotees? What sweetness of spirituality suffused with love!
43. Raja Maharaj remains an enigma to me. His exalted spiritual status seems unfathomable. He is the mystic nonpareil.
44. Baburam Maharaj was indeed love incarnate. His divine presence permeates the whole Ramakrishna Movement.
45. The absolute honesty and sheer integrity of Vijnananandaji endears him to me. He would brook no nonsense.
46. Is Thakur residing in Belur Math? Then was it sanity to disturb him with the 'gun salute' in 'honour' of Atmasthanandaji?
47. Ramakrishna's renunciation was so complete that he has become the symbol of the unqualified Brahman in its human manifestation.
48. Brahman is, the world is not. Yet, this truth cannot be articulated. It is the residuum of the negation of all, or is it?
49. In spiritual life obedience is a primary virtue, an imperative that helps advance the soul rapidly.
50. Garhasthya Ashram must have the 'ashram' part to it. Otherwise, it is a mere mundane institution. Hence, live sublime, live divine.
51. The world today lacks character as Swamiji had then pointed out. A certain laxity of morals and virtue is engulfing all that is.
52. Anything that pollutes the environment must be avoided even if that means foregoing fire-ceremonies.
53. The earthly mother is none but the Divine Mother in assumed imperfection. So, behold the One within.
54. Do not dwell in the dark. Come ye into the light. The dark shall be thus dispelled.
55. Much of our miseries are self-inflicted. Live wisely to avoid such. Meditate daily to stay calm. Miseries will reduce.
56. Verily, verily, I say unto you, read 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' daily with loving care and you will realise God by Thakur's grace.
57. Those that are having problems with my writings may turn off notifications, unfriend me, block me, whatever, but need not suffer them.
58. Ultimately, the self, the Guru and God, all melt into an infinitude of nothingness, the harmony of the 'poorna' and the 'shoonya'.
59. Prayer :
My birth, O Lord, has been here,
Now grant that I may live abroad.
60. Was Swami Nirmalananda (Tulsi Maharaj) Sri Ramakrishna's 17th direct disciple? Your position on this, please.
61. How many farmers of the land fed me before I left my motherland to feed my desires! Alas, who cares for the teeming millions?
62. The day the poor people rise in rebellion against the offence of centuries of the rich and the powerful, that day will justice be.
63. It is shocking to see the level of commitment for Mother's cause by some of Mother's children who apparently live and die for her.
63. Become active devotees and not passive practitioners of piety as Ranganathanandaji famously said.
64. Bengal produced Vivekananda, Madras recognised him, America afforded him and the world accepted him.
65. Aurobindo was right in his assessment of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda initially. His writing on the spiritual duo is worth reading.
66. Netaji did much for the Singapore Ramakrishna Mission, a fact, sadly, not much in common knowledge now.
67. Our Guru is Sri Ramakrishna. In him is the source, course and estuary of our being.
68. Swami Brahmananda is simply unfathomable in his depth. A veritable dynamo of spiritual power, he remains the ultimate enigma.
69. Love incarnate was Baburam Maharaj, so pure that on contact with him Sri Ramakrishna was transported to ecstasy.
70. Annapurna will feed Her children, so, the dining hall in Holy Mother's House is being built. Come ye and help build it.
71. Wish for liberation in this life? Then die a million deaths for the living Lord in the suffering millions.
72. All energy must be gathered and given to the service of the living Lord. Thus shall salvation be.
73. Passive piety is the most civilised form of hypocrisy. It is selfishness wearing the garb of selflessness.
74. The fresh flower must be offered to the Lord. Offer your children to the study of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda.
75. Do not degrade the ideal to your level. Rather, raise yourself to the level of the ideal. The ideal must not be made to harmonise with life. Instead, life must be harmonised with the ideal.
76. When the going is easy build your base. Else, the edifice will crumble when the tide is rough.
77. Life is a unique opportunity to strike the gold. Here where the forces are balanced, the chances are high of reaching perfection.
78. You are free even this very moment. Just negate all preconception and witness the fetters fall.
79. He who has cast off his shadow is the sannyasi.
80. In the Atman there is no distinction of sex but short of the Self such distinction must ever be made to avoid the snares of Maya.
81. Dawn it is and dusk shall be when I must set aside all work and meditate on the Lord, for the elements then are harmonic.
82. Vivekananda went to the West to herald a new civilisation built on the foundation of the eternal Atman.
83. The scattered seeds of mustard must all be gathered ere the mind is fit for final dissolution and the Atman reveals.
84. Cultivate originality if you wish to be free. Slavery to men of merit or money will not remove bondage. Stand clear of all dross.
85. It is but a matter of time before the fetters fall and your divinity unfolds.
86. The living light within you is the highest God that witnesses all other shadowy features being worshipped.
87. Aseshanandaji's voice, deep and resonant, seemed to be coming as if from the depths of the sea.
88. Do not drag your children into the world of sensory pleasures. They deserve a better exposure to the infinitude of their Self.
89. Through good or through ill, He guides this vessel, this earthly carrier unto its spiritual end.
90. The door is open for men to flee this terrible dungeon of the world. Yet, men choose to hurl themselves headlong into this inferno.
91. Spoil thyself if thou wilt but, pray, spare the child.
92. Read 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' and find peace within yourself.
93. To follow Vivekananda requires courage and character. Not a trace of selfishness will allow filial adherence to him.
94. Chaos and confusion must always be avoided in life. Let the mind settle so that subtler perceptions are possible.
95. This life is not for wasteful spending on sense-gratification but is for the advancement towards the spiritual goal.
96. Work with dispassion with the ideal in mind and you will work wonders. Never mind the backbiters. They can do you no harm.
97. The riddle of this universe has its solution within me and that is the beauty of it all.
98. Determinism seems to be as flawed a concept as non-determinism. Maya is inexplicable as Shankaracharya succinctly put it.
99. Do not be duped by the dazzling displays of Maya. They are out there to distract you to your disaster, then death.
100. Rare comes the soul who can see through every trick of this old sorceress, Avidya Maya. Such a one is the Avatar.
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