IT IS THAT ETERNAL LOVE, UNRUFFLED EQUANIMITY UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES

Truth will preach itself, it will not die for the want of the helping hands of me! "Making happiness and misery the same, making success and failure the same, fight thou on" (Gita). It is that eternal love, unruffled equanimity under all circumstances, and perfect freedom from jealousy or animosity that will tell. That will tell, nothing else. 

Yours,
VIVEKANANDA
1895

A WORD FOR YOU.

. . . A word for you. Remember always, I may not see you again. Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man. Strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind. Try to love anybody and everybody. Be a man and try to make those immediately under your care, namely Ram, Krishnamayi, and Indu, brave, moral.

- Swami Vivekananda
Allahabad
5th January, 1890.
My Dear Fakir,

THE DIFFERENCE WAS MADE BY PERSONALITY

" Compare the great teachers of religion with the great philosophers. The philosophers scarcely influenced anybody's inner man, and yet they wrote most marevellous books. The religious teachers, on the other hand, moved countries in their lifetime. The difference was made by personality. In the philosopher it is a faint personality that influences; in the great prophets it is tremendous. In the former we touch the intellect, in the latter we touch life. "

- Swami Vivekananda
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I CARE ONLY FOR THE SPIRIT

" I am no politician or political agitator. I care only for the spirit. When it is right, everything will be righted by itself "

- Swami Vivekananda

SO STAND UP MEN AND WOMEN, DARE TO BELIEVE IN THE TRUTH, DARE TO PRACTICE THE TRUTH !!!

 

“It was the great King Bhartrihari¹ who said – “Let the sages blame or let them praise; let the goddess of fortune come or let her go wherever she lik...es; let death come to-day, or let it come in hundreds of years; he indeed is the steady man who does not move one inch from the way of truth.”

“So stand up men and women, dare to believe in the truth, dare to practice the truth!”

- Swami Vivekananda

HE SEETH THE SPARROW'S FALL

It is all He! In the tiger and in the lamb, in the saint and sinner all He! In Him I have taken my refuge, body, soul, and Atman. Will He leave me now after carrying me in His arms all my life? Not a drop will be in the ocean, not a twig in the deepest forest, not a crumb in the house of the god of wealth, if the Lord is not merciful. Streams will be in the desert and the beggar will have plenty, if He wills it. He seeth the sparrow's fall. Are these but words, mother, or literal, actual life?

- Swami Vivekananda
 

CHARACTER IS REPEATED HABITS, AND REPEATED HABITS ALONE CAN REFORM CHARACTER

The only remedy for bad habits is counter habits; all the bad habits that have left their impressions are to be controlled by good habits. Go on doing good, thinking holy thoughts continuously; that is the only way to suppress base impressions. Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

- Swami Vivekananda