1. Are devotees dead now when soldiers die?
2. How would China have reacted if Indian soldiers had killed three of their Chinese counterparts instead?
3. The limit of our ambition is to learn, earn and settle abroad. The flower of our national talent must return to the motherland to serve her and build her fortunes.
4. China kills. Indian soldiers martyred. Is it not time for us to go so far ahead of China in science and technology that we can give them a hiding if they dare violate our national honour?
5. Privilege is opposed to piety. There can be no privilege in religion. All are the children of the same Lord, call Him by what you will. And all are equal inheritors of the Divine.
6. Showcasing the self is opposed to the Spirit ; sublimation of the self is in keeping with it.
7. A common cowardice cannot be a part of religion nor a common compromise made. Courage is the hallmark of the virtuous, of the lion steeped in the Spirit. Be brave if you wish to be free.
8. Finally, it is a free fall into the loving arms of the Lord. The substratum waits for the surface to merge. The intermediary of space-time vanishes as old friends meet.
9. The prophet of constricted heart declares all religions but his as partial or false. The prophet of universal heart declares all religions to be true, ways to the Supreme Truth.
10. From love we arise, in love we rest and in love we dissolve. Know love to be the essence of your existence ; know love to be the Lord you adore. The Lord is pure love.
11. To translate the Word unto deed, the deed unto life and life unto liberation is the pathway of the Spirit.
12. Life is continuous. There is simply no break. It is an eternal day.
13. Accomplish each task entrusted unto you as the work of God. Do it with grace and artistic beauty for in beauty lies the Lord and in the fulfilment of the divine deed His Grace.
14. Never give up the hope that you will triumph over the odds of life. You will for you are omnipotent, a spark of the Divine. Manifest that strength. Have infinite faith in the Lord.
15. The Truth within one is the Truth within all. It is of the Love that flows through the vast and the small.
16. Serve if you wish to See.All will be saved. None will be left behind. All are already free, only they know not. It is but a matter of time when ignorance drops for good.
17. All will be saved. None will be left behind. All are already free, only they know not. It is but a matter of time when ignorance drops for good.
18. A simple life is at the heart of spirituality. Think not in complicated terms. Live lives of truth and simplicity and you will find God.
19. Truth is for all for Truth is in all.
20. Evil is that which takes away the memory of God and good is that which makes you remember Him who ever loves.
21. There is a way to find God. Love all without distinction. But stay pure and keep away from evil.
22. God is One and God is the Many. God is with form and God is without form. Attributes are God and Consciousness is God. Existence is God and Love is God.
23. Self-love in the form of express advertisement of self-photographs is contrarily disposed to spiritual well-being.
24. This body is the help and this body is the hindrance to spiritual progress. Identification with it becomes the ignorant, not the propagator of spiritual messages galore. Word and deed must match.
25. দুদিন বাদেই হৃতযৌবন হতে হবে । হয়ত হয়েও গেছে । তবু এই ক্ষণভঙ্গুর শরীরের ছবি বারে বারে প্রদর্শন কেন ?
26. Those who wish to propagate the dharma must completely forget their own selves and only remember the cause that they represent.
27. The less westernised you are, the more spiritual shall you be.
28. Marketed spirituality has assumed the form of Art of Making Money. Spirituality, though, ought to be devoid of saleable Kriya, Engineering etc.
29. The word is 'Hardwaar', not 'Haridwaar'. The extra 'a' is mine, to signify the phonetic stretch.
30. To some of my friends I say. The 'share' option ought to be provided in every post on Swamiji. Sri Ramakrishna used to say that it is best to share the mango with all.
31. The divine name is potent. Have faith and chant incessantly even as the breath flies in and out. Let a subterranean stream of divine remembrance be. The Lord will manifest.
32. He who has nothing has everything.
33. Everyone is, knowingly or unknowingly, spiritual. The Spirit is the stuff of which men are made.
34. Self-improvement is the only way in a world of vanishing dreams. You are made of light. Go beyond the body to behold it.
35. Do not spray about energy doing a million things. Concentrate on one and great will be your success.
36. Spirituality is fundamentally the formation of character.
37. He is the greatest benefactor of mankind who gives to the world spiritual truths come alive in his being.
38. Our work must be constructive. Spewing venom against others is of no use. We must be able to draw everybody to our fold with sympathy intense and all-embracing.
39. The British taught us how to cheat. Must we persist in our preceptor's line and destroy our country?
40. The commercial instinct runs contrary to the humanistic one and this is the tragedy of the times. The cart has everywhere gone ahead of the horse as the dream of civilisation turns into nightmare.
41. Mother India is still in her midday maturity. Her best is yet to come. And in this there shall be no waning of the advancing day, no shadows lengthening to cast an a'fer gloom.
42. My friends,
Fire up the people. Set aflame your profiles with the volcanic messages of Swamiji. This is the need of the hour.
43. We must reject weakening, paralysing poetic thoughts that pander to sensuality as poison. In this lies strength and its quickening into worthwhile action.
44. All of you made my birthday memorable. So, I offer you all my heart's adoration.
45. আজ বড়ই আনন্দ পেলাম । আপনারা সবাই আমার জন্মদিনটি কেমন সুন্দর করে তুললেন । আপনাদের তাই আমার ভালবাসা দিলাম ।
46. None of the Christian nations follow Christ. The only country that has ever followed him has been India whose spiritual ideal's partial Semitic representative has been the Son of Man, one of the many incarnations of God humanity has seen.
47. Nowadays it is a fashion to vaunt atheism. As if not to believe in God is in itself a certification of intellectual attainment. Such are the misadventures of the times.
48. Devotees must overcome their apathy to the country's spiritual cause and devote themselves wholeheartedly to bringing about its revitalisation.
49. Are not a few young boys and girls there who can get fired up with the words of Swamiji and, moulding their lives in accordance, attempt to reverse the decadent spiritual culture of the world?
50. Let not the ills of decadent consumerism get to you. Gather yourself clean from such corrosive contamination.
51. Do not fall into the traps of these professional 'spiritual' gurus who are all charlatans. Businessmen they are, crooks who need to be confronted effectively rather than being afforded public support.
52. This body is the universe and so is the mind. I am the witness of all, or even not that, as I recoil unto myself and abide in self-reflexive existence.
53. Other than Swami Vivekananda the one entirely original thinker in the history of the Ramakrishna Order was Swami Premeshananda.
54. The whole of the universe is memory and myth. The unalloyed ' I ' am the Reality.
55. We are living in a temple - Bharatmandir.
56. To know and to love - these are the twin passions of life.
57. Who laboriously built up the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture from scratch for a period of 25 years but has been quite not remembered for his seminal achievement ?
58. অনন্তঘন ভাবই ঈশ্বর ।
59. Was there a better emissary of Swami Vivekananda's message than Swami Ranganathananda?
60. Never say that a future man cannot be greater than Vivekananda but let one be such in the fullest blaze of the searchlight.
61. If privilege were not so rampant in Indian society, the spoilt children of rich people who do not study would be gathering dust in adult life. Instead they become the CEOs of their grandfather's company.
62. To my Communist friends I say. In India you can speak against the Government but in your beloved China you cannot.
63. A people enslaved, a culture desecrated, destroyed, a materialism imposed, China has in Tibet caused a grievous harm to human heritage.
64. It is better to befriend Japan than ever trust China in friendship after what they have done to us since Tibet, 1950.
65. If we cannot learn patriotism from western education or from our homes, let us learn it from the Japanese.
66. The tribals must be protected from marauding multinationals and converting Christians. Tribal civilisation offers us a peep into human prehistoric past.
67. All the dharma traditions of India must combine to thwart the conversion designs of Christianity and Islam.
68. There is no glory in a Hindu eating beef and flouting an age-old tradition set up in India post the advent of the Buddha.
69. Why do so many shy of saying that they believe in God? Is atheism the sign of superior culture that so many are apologetic about admitting their faith in the Sanatan Dharma?
70. We must have greater national pride.
71. The path of Maya is the path of the Mother's will.
72. Unto Thee I surrender myself, O Lord !
73. The environment does matter. Some people are just not allowed the respite to think nobly and act likewise by their earthly associates constantly dragging them down to their habitual lowly levels.
74. What a waste of a human life seeking out petty problems the whole day and attending to them, thus satisfying the lowly desire of picking faults in others !
75. মৃত্যু আমার গুরু,
জীবন আমার পথ,
শ্বাস আমার পাথেয়,
লক্ষ্য ভগবান ।
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