This I have seen in life—those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step; those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
These are words of the great saint Swami Vivekananda.. And it seems to be very true to me.. Whatever I try to hug close to my heart is what I tend to loose.. Now I have started thinking that it is better to let things go so that what you really deserve alone comes to me and not what you want to have....
This brings up one more point.. I should not try to plan for everything that might happen in life.. I should learn to take things as they come.. May be that will makew my life more brighter... And that means, I need to change the comments I have put with this blog.
My manager is a big follower of Swami Vivekanada.. He keeps sending Vivekananda qoutes to interested ppl.. Here is the collection :
This I have seen in life—those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step; those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
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.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
Don't look back!!!!
Look forward with infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
The mind is the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will happen when you are dependent on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free.
Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?
Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are …[but] unless you realize the Self (atman), there is no freedom.
We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.
Stand Up!!! Be Bold!!!! Take all the responsibilities on your shoulders!!!
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
God is merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; First, learn to obey. The command will come by it self.
All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.
Go on saying, “I am free.” Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, “I am bound.” Dehypnotize the whole thing.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.
Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.
Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple or masjid.
This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells—that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one’s spiritual Self (atman).
Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. If we can bring ourselves down by our karma, surely it is in our power to raise ourselves by our own karma.
There cannot be friendship without equality.
Stand up!!! Be Bold!!!!!! Take ALL the responsibilities on your Shoulders!!!!
Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?
Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.
If superstition enters, the brain is gone.
Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?
Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.
Do not look back upon what has been done. Go ahead!
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word “fearlessness”
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.”
Strength is the sign of vigor, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, and the sign of everything that is good. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, strength in the hand.
This is the first lesson to learn; be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself.
You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.
If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.
Arrow goes forward only after pulling in to backward.
Bullet goes forward only after pressing the Trigger backward.
Such that,Every human being will get happy only after facing the difficulties in their life path.
So don't afraid to face your difficulties. They will push you forward.
Are great things ever done smoothly? “Time”, “patience”, and “indomitable will” must show.
When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it’s intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it works every moment and rests every moment.
We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.
Believe that “No Power” in the Universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.
Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do” -> will grumble at everything. Always grumbling they will lead a miserable life….
But those who do their duty putting their shoulder to the wheel will see the light, and higher and higher duties will fall to their share.
More and More responsibilities shouldered definitely will yield prosperity, growth and fruitful returns” - The last statement is my add-on.
Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.
A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
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