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“Great things can be done by great sacrifices only. No selfishness, no name, no fame, yours or mine, nor my Master’s even! Work, work the idea, the plan, my boys, my brave, noble, good souls – to the wheel, to the wheel put your shoulders! Stop not to look for name, or fame, or any such nonsense. Throw self overboard and work…The Lord’s blessings on you all – as I believe it is already…Up, up, the long night is passing, the day is approaching, the wave has risen, nothing will be able to resist its tidal fury. The spirit, my boys, the spirit; the love, my children, the love; the faith, the belief; and fear not! The greatest sin is fear.”

“Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us! Death means only a change of garment. What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards…Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune. You have cried to all the gods in the world. Has misery ceased? The masses in India cry to sixty million gods, and still die like dogs. Where are these gods? The gods come too help only when you have succeeded. So what is the use? Die game…This bending the knee to superstitions, this selling yourself to your own mind does not befit you, my soul. You are infinite, deathless, birth less. Because you are infinite spirit, it does not befit you to be a slave…Arise! Awake! Stand up and fight! Die if you must. There is none to help you. You are all the world. Who can help you?”

— Swami Vivekananda

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Nothing can happen without the will of God. Not even a blade of grass can move. When a man passes into a favorable time, he gets the desire to contemplate on God. But when the time is unfavorable, he gets all the facilities for doing evil actions. Everything happens in time according to the will of God. The Master has predetermined what he is going to accomplish. If anyone surrenders himself totally at his feet, then the Master will see that everything is set right. One must bear with everything, because everything is determined by actions (karmas). Past sins can be counteracted by meditation, japa and spiritual thought.

— Sri Sarada Devi

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God is the Kalpataru, the Wish-fulfilling Tree. You will certainly get whatever you ask of Him. But you must pray standing near the Kalpataru. Only then will your prayer be fulfilled. A man gets the fulfillment of the desire he cherishes while practicing sadhana. As one thinks, so one receives.

— Sri Ramakrishna

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Faith in the guru’s words. One attains God by following the guru’s instructions step by step. It is like reaching an object by following the trail of a thread. He is unknowable by the mind engrossed in worldliness. One cannot attain God if one has even a trace of attachment to ‘woman and gold’. But He is knowable by the pure mind and the pure intelligence – the mind and intelligence that have not the slightest trace of attachment. Pure mind, Pure Intelligence, Pure Atman are one and the same thing. One cannot understand the meaning of the scriptures without practicing spiritual discipline.

— Sri Ramakrishna

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Be brave and be sincere; then follow any path with devotion, and you must reach the Whole. Once lay hold of one link of the chain, and the whole chain must come by degrees. Water the roots of the tree and the whole tree is watered; getting the Lord, we get all.

— Swami Vivekananda

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A man visited a gold shop with the intention of selling the idols of Ganesha and Mouse. He inquired about the value of the idol, and to his surprise, the shop owner quoted that the idol, regardless of whether it was of Ganesha or a mouse, would fetch the same price of ten thousand rupees for 100 grams.

Perplexed, the man asked, “How can a sacred idol of Ganesha and a mere mouse have the same value?”

The shop owner smiled and explained, “To you, it may seem like Ganesha and a mouse, but to me, they are simply gold.”

In the same way, a Brahmajnani sees all things as manifestations of the same Brahman. Yet, to the ordinary eye, the world is full of distinctions and differences.

The man left the shop reflecting on this profound insight, understanding that beneath the surface of apparent diversity, the essence of all things remains unchanged.

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Swami Vivekananda called us during the plague epidemic in 1898 and said, “Listen. We are all sons of Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna. We are children of immortality. We must serve these patients suffering from plague by ignoring the danger to our own lives. If we have to sell our newly-acquired land or even sacrifice our lives to serve and arrange for the treatment of these patients, we are ready for that. ‘Cannon in front, cannon to our left, cannon to our right’ — there lurks danger in front, in back, to our right, to our left! We have to carry out our duties in the midst of such dangers, no questions asked. ‘Ours to do and die, ours not to question why.’ Come, taking His name let us all be ready to jump into this sea of death. We are all sons of Sri Ramakrishna, children of immortality. Whom should we be afraid of?”
— Swami Akhandananda

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