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Then and then alone you are Christian when the very name of our lord sends through you a galvanic shock of strength.
Then and then alone you are a Christian when every man who bears the name, from any country, speaking our language or any language, becomes at once the nearest and dearest to you.
Then and then alone you are a Christian when the distress of anyone bearing that name comes to your heart and makes you feel as if your own son were in distress.
Then and then alone you are a Christian when you will be ready to bear everything for them, like….God himself. After having his son shed his own blood for the defence of us creatures, after having seen his child killed on the battlefield – Ay, this example of Jesus, left even by those for whose sake he was shedding his blood and the blood of his nearest and dearest – he, the wounded lion, retired from the field calmly to die in the south but not a word of curse escaped his lips against those who had ungratefully forsaken him!
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Every one of you will have to be a Jesus, If you want to do good to your country. You may see thousands of defects in your countrymen. but mark their Christian blood. They are the first gods you will have to worship, even if they do everything to hurt you; even if everyone of sends out a curse to you, you send out to them the word of love. If they drive you out, retire to die in silence like the mighty lion, Jesus. Such a man is worthy of the name of Christian; such an ideal ought to be before us always.
-All our hatchets let us bury; send out this grand current of love all around.-
-Swami Vivekananda-
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-Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.-
-When you think you are a body, are apart from the universe; when you think; you are a soul, you are a spark from the great Eternal Fire; when you think you are the Âtman (Self), you are All.-
-The will is not free — it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect — but there is something behind the will which is free.-
-Strength is in goodness, in purity.-
-The universe is — objectified God.-
-You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.-
-The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.-
-One party says thought is caused by matter, and the other says matter is caused by thought. Both statements are wrong; matter and thought are coexistent. There is a third something of which both matter and thought are products.-
-As particles of matter combine in space, so mind-waves combine in time.-
-To define God is — grinding the already ground; for He is the only being we know.-
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All healthy social changes are the manifestations of the spiritual forces working within, and if these are strong and well adjusted, society will arrange itself accordingly. Each individual has to work out his own salvation; there is no other way, and so also with nations. Again, the great institutions of every nation are the conditions of its very existence and cannot be transformed by the mould of any other race. Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous. Growth is always gradual.
It is very easy to point out the defects of institutions, all being more or less imperfect, but he is the real benefactor of humanity who helps the individual to overcome his imperfections under whatever institutions he may live. The individuals being raised, the nation and its institutions are bound to rise. Bad customs and laws are ignored by the virtuous, and unwritten but mightier laws of love, sympathy, and integrity take their place. Happy is the nation which can rise to the necessity of but few law books, and needs no longer to bother its head about this or that institution. Good men rise beyond all laws, and will help their fellows to rise under whatever conditions they live.
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The greatest name man ever gave to God is Truth. Truth is the fruit of realisation; therefore seek it within the soul. Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. “We are deluded and maddened by books”, Shri Krishna declares. Be beyond the dualities of nature. The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the “be-all” and “end-all”, then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others, but take care they do not become a bondage. Religion is one, but its application must be various. Let each one, therefore, give his message; but find not the defects in other religions. You must come out from all form if you would see the Light. Drink deep of the nectar of the knowledge of God. The man who realises. “I am He”, though clad in rags, is happy. Go forth into the Eternal and come back with eternal energy. The slave goes out to search for truth; he comes back free.
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One cannot divide the rights of the universe. To talk of “right” implies limitation. It is not “right” but “responsibility”. Each is responsible for the evil anywhere in the world. No one can separate himself from his brother. All that unites with the universal is virtue; all that separates is sin. You are a part of the Infinite. This is your nature. Hence you are your brother’s keeper.
The first end of life is knowledge; the second end of life is happiness. Knowledge and happiness lead to freedom. But not one can attain liberty until every being (ant or dog) has liberty. Not one can be happy until all are happy. When you hurt anyone you hurt yourself, for you and your brother are one. He is indeed a Yogi who sees himself in the whole universe and the whole universe in himself. Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe. The world is so evil because Jesus’ teaching, “Resist not evil”, has never been tried. Selflessness alone will solve the problem. Religion comes with intense self-sacrifice. Desire nothing for yourself. Do all for others. This is to live and move and have your being in God.
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This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desire for name and fame. Those who know this secret pass beyond this round of birth and death and become immortal.
The ordinary Sannyâsin gives up the world, goes out, and thinks of God. The real Sannyâsin lives in the world, but is not of it. Those who deny themselves, live in the forest, and chew the cud of unsatisfied desires are not true renouncers. Live in the midst of the battle of life. Anyone can keep calm in a cave or when asleep. Stand in the whirl and madness of action and reach the Centre. If you have found the Centre, you cannot be moved.
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As we cannot know except through effects that we have eyes, so we cannot see the Self except by Its effects. It cannot be brought down to the low plane of sense-perception. It is the condition of everything in the universe, though Itself unconditioned. When we know that we are the Self, then we are free. The Self can never change. It cannot be acted on by a cause, because It is Itself the cause. It is self-caused. If we can find in ourself something that is not acted on by any cause, then we have known the Self.
Freedom is inseparably connected with immortality. To be free one must be above the laws of nature. Law exists so long as we are ignorant. When knowledge comes, then we find that law nothing but freedom in ourselves. The will can never be free, because it is the slave of cause and effect. But the “I” behind the will is free; and this is the Self. “I am free” — that is the basis on which to build and live. And freedom means immortality.
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-That which differentiates one thing from another is time, space, and causation.-
-The differentiation is in the form, not in the substance.-
-You may destroy the form and it disappears for ever; but the substance remains the same. You can never destroy the substance.-
-Evolution is in nature, not in the soul — evolution of nature, manifestation of the soul.-
-Maya is not illusion as it is popularly interpreted. Maya is real, yet it is not real. It is real in that the Real is behind it and gives it its appearance of reality. That which is real in Maya is the Reality in and through Maya. Yet the Reality is never seen; and hence that which is seen is unreal, and its has no real independent existence of itself, but is dependent upon the Real for its existence.-
-Maya then is a paradox — real, yet not real, an illusion, yet not an illusion.-
-He who knows the Real sees in Maya not illusion, but reality. He who knows not the Real sees in Maya illusion and thinks it real.-
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-Anything that is in space has form. Space itself has form. Either you are in space, or space is in you. The soul is beyond all space. Space is in the soul, not the soul in space.-
-Form is confined to time and space and is bound by the law of causation. All time is in us, we are not in time. As the soul is not in time and space, all time and space are within the soul. The soul is therefore omnipresent.-
-Our idea of God is the reflection of ourselves.-
-Old Persian and Sanskrit have affinities.-
-The primitive idea of God was identifying God with different forms of nature — nature-worship. The next stage was the tribal God. The next stage, the worship of kings.-
-The idea of God in heaven is predominant in all nations except in India. The idea is very crude.-
-The idea of the continuity of life is foolish. We can never get rid of death until we get rid of life.-
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If there is any land on this earth that can lay claim to be the blessed Punya-Bhumi, to be the land to which souls on this earth must come to account for work, the land to which every soul that is wending it’s way Godward must come to attain it’s last home, the land were humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness, above all, the land of introspection and of spirituality – It is India
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The social laws of India have always been subject to great periodic changes. At their inception, these laws were the embodiment of a gigantic plan, which was to unfold itself slowly through time. The great seers of ancient India saw so far ahead of their time that the world has to wait centuries yet appreciate their wisdom, and it is this very inability, on the part of their own descendants, to appreciate the full scope of the wonderful plan, that is the one and only cause of degeneration of India. The degeneration of India came not because the laws and customs of the ancient were bad, but because they were not allowed to be carried to their legitimate conclusions.
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-Desire is infinite, its fulfilment limited. Desire is unlimited in everyone; the power of fulfilment varies. Thus some are more successful than others in life.-
-This limitation is the bondage we are struggling against all our lives.-
-We desire only the pleasurable, not the painful.-
- The objects of desire are all complex — pleasure-giving and pain-bringing mixed up.-
-We do not or cannot see the painful parts in objects, we are charmed with only the pleasurable portion; and, thus grasping the pleasurable, we unwittingly draw in the painful.-
- At times we vainly hope that in our case only the pleasurable will come, leaving the painful aside, which never happens.-
-Our desires also are constantly changing — what we would prize today we would reject tomorrow. The pleasure of the present will be the pain of the future, the loved hated, and so on.-
- We vainly hope that in the future life we shall be able to gather in only the pleasurable, to the exclusion of the painful.-
-The future is only the extension of the present. Such a thing cannot be!-
- Whosoever seeks pleasure in objects will get it, but he must take the pain with it.-
-All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.-
- Death is the goal of all objects, change is the nature of all objective things.-
-As desire increases, so increases the power of pleasure, so the power of pain.-
- The finer the organism, the higher the culture — the greater is the power to enjoy pleasure and the sharper are the pangs of pain.-
-Mental pleasures are greatly superior to physical joys. Mental pains are more poignant than physical tortures.-
-The power of thought, of looking far away into he future, and the power of memory, of recalling the past to the present, make us live in heaven; they make us live in hell also.-
-The man who can collect the largest amount of pleasurable objects around him is as a rule too unimaginative to enjoy them. The man of great imagination is thwarted by the intensity of his feeling of loss, or fear of loss, or perception of defects.-
-We are struggling hard to conquer pain, succeeding in the attempt, and yet creating new pains at the same time.-
-We achieve success, and we are overthrown by failure; we pursue pleasure and we are pursued by pain.-
-We say we do, we are made to do. We say we work, we are made to labour. We say we live, we are made to die every moment. We are in the crowd, we cannot stop, must go on — it deserves no cheering. Had it not been so, no amount of cheering would make us undertake all this pain and misery for a grain of pleasure — which, alas, in most cases is only a hope!-
– Our pessimism is a dread reality, our optimism is a faint cheering, making the best of a bad job.-
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-The law is never separate from the phenomena. the principle from the person.-
-The law is the method of action or poise of every single phenomenon within its scope.-
-We get our knowledge of law from the massing and welding of changes that occur. We never see law beyond these changes. The idea of law as something separate from phenomena is a mental abstraction, a convenient use of words and nothing more. Law is a part of every change within its range, a manner which resides in the things governed by the law. The power resides in the things, is a part of our idea of that thing — its action upon something else is in a certain manner — this is our law.-
-Law is in the actual state of things — it is in how they act towards each other, and not in how they should. It might have been better if fire did not burn or water wet; but that they do — this is the law; and if it is a true law, a fire that does not burn or water that does not wet is neither fire nor water.-
-Spiritual laws, ethical laws, social laws, national laws — are laws if they are parts of existing spiritual and human units and the unfailing experience of the action of every unit said to be bound by such laws.-
-We, by turn, are made by law and make it. A generalization of what man does invariably in certain circumstances is a law with regard to man in that particular aspect. It is the invariable, universal human action that is law for man — and which no individual can escape — and yet the summation of the action of each individual is the universal Law. The sum total, or the universal, or the infinite is fashioning the individual, while the individual is keeping by its action the Law alive. Law in this sense is another name for the universal. The universal is dependent upon the individual, the individual dependent upon the universal. It is an infinite made up of finite parts, an infinite of number, though involving the difficulty of assuming an infinity summed up of finites — yet for all practical purposes, it is a fact before us. And as the law, or whole, or the infinite cannot be destroyed — and the destruction of a part of an infinite is an impossibility, as we cannot either add anything to or subtract anything from the infinite — each part persists for ever.-
-Laws regarding the materials of which the body of man is composed have been found out, and also the persistence of these materials through time has been shown. The elements which composed the body of a man a hundred thousand years ago have been proved to be still existing in some place or other. The thoughts which have been. projected also are living in other minds.-
-But the difficulty is to find a law about the man beyond the body.
-The spiritual and ethical laws are not the method of action of every human being. The systems of ethics of morality, even of national laws, are honoured more in the breach than in the observance. If they were laws how could they be broken?-
-No man is able to go against the laws of nature. How is it that we always complain of his breaking the moral laws, national laws?-
-The national laws at best are the embodied will of a majority of the nation — always a state of things wished for, not actually existing.-
-The ideal law may be that no man should covet the belongings of others, but the actual law is that a very large number do.-
-Thus the word law used in regard to laws of nature has a very different interpretation when applied to ethics and human actions generally.-
-Analysing the ethical laws of the world and comparing them with the actual state of things, two laws stand out supreme. The one, that of repelling everything from us — separating ourselves from everyone — which leads to self-aggrandisement even at the cost of everyone else’s happiness. The other, that of self-sacrifice — of taking no thought of ourselves — only of others. Both spring from the search for happiness — one, of finding happiness in injuring others and the ability of feeling that happiness only in our own senses. The other, of finding happiness in doing good to others — the ability of feeling happy, as it were, through the senses of others The great and good of the world are those who have the latter power predominating. Yet both these are working side by side conjointly; in almost everyone they are found in mixture, one or the other predominating. The thief steals, perhaps, for someone he loves.-
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-The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity – of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.-
-Bhagat Singh-
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-” I also wish my friends to speak little or not at all about me, because idols are created when men are praised and this is very bad for the future of the human race…..Acts alone, no metter by whom committed out to be studied, praised or blamed. Let them be praised in order that they may be initiated when they seem to contribute to the common weal; let them be ceusured when they are regarded as injurious to the general well being, so that they may not be repeated.”
“I desire that on no occasion, whether near or remote, nor for any reason whatsoever, shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains as I consider the time devoted to the dead would be better employed in improving the conditions of the living, most of whom stand in great need of this.” -
-Bhagat Singh-
Kureh Khak hai Gardash main Tapash sai Meri ,
Main Voh majnu huan Jo Jindan main Bhee Azad Raha
{ Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat
I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail }
-Bhagat Singh-
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Freedom
Men! whose boast it is that ye
Come of fathers brave and free,
If there breathe on earth a slave,
Are you truely free and brave?
If ye do not feel the chain
When it works a brother’s pain
Are ye not base slaves indeed
Slaves unworthy to be freed?
Is true Freedom but to break
Fetters for our own dear sake,
And , with leathern hearts , forget
That we owe mankind a debt?
No! true Freedom is to share
All the chains our brothers wear ,
And, with heart and hand , to be
Earnest to make others free!
They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
They are slaves who will not choose
Hatered, scoffing and abuse,
Rather than in silence shrink
From the truth they needs must think:
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three
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PEACE
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TO THE AWAKENED INDIA
And tell the world —
Awake, arise, and dream no more!
This is the land of dreams, where Karma
Weaves unthreaded garlands with our thoughts
Of flowers sweet or noxious, and none
Has root or stem, being born in naught, which
The softest breath of Truth drives back to
Primal nothingness. Be bold, and face
The Truth! Be one with it! Let visions cease,
Or, if you cannot, dream but truer dreams,
Which are Eternal Love and Service Free.
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Fight for Freedom
The power of armies is visible thing
Formal and circumscribed in time and space
But who then limits that power shall trace
Which a brave people into light can bring
Or hide ,at will ,- for freedom combating
By just revenge inflamed? No foot may chase,
No eye can follow , to a fatal place
That power that spirit whether on the wing
Like strong wind , or sleeping like the wind
Within its awful caves —– from year to year
Spring this indigenous produce far and near;
No craft this subtle element can bind,
Rising like water from the soil , to find .
In every nook a lip that it may cheer,
” Imprisionment is as irrevocable as death”
” Criminals do not die by the hand of law .They die by the hand of other men.”
“Associations on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination , because —– invested by the approval of society.”
” It is the deed that eaches , not the name we give it ‘Murder’ and ‘Capital punishment ‘ are not opposite that cancel one another , but similiars that bread their kind.”
“Crime is only the retail department of what , in wholesale , we call “Penal law”.
“When a man wants to murder a tiger , he call it sport when a tiger wants to murder a man call it ferocity . the distinction between Crime and justice is no greater.
” It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal; it is necessary to replace guillotine and social system.”
“In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god , every body worships him; and no body does his will.”
“Property , said Proudhan , is theft , This is only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject .” Pages 233
“No doubt it is easy to demonstrate that property will destroy society ,unless society destroy it. No doubt ,also, property has hither to hold its own and destroyed all the Empires. “
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