* When we work on idea and find that person either already developed or already exist somewhere, even without disclosing to anybody.

* When we are happy and neutral and we see other living beings giving us smiles without any reasons.

* When we help somebody without any expectations, and found out that some stranger too helped our family member in other place.

* We realized in later life that whatever we dreamt did not happened but what happened was much more better than expected.

* When we surrender and let universal energy ( parmatma ) take decision then life seems to flow.

* When it seems not just eyes but whole body works in synchronicity  

PARENTS : a. giving more preference to son b. giving / taking dowry  c.expecting service from daughter in law.

HUSBAND : a.buying gold and jewelry as gift but actually investment / security for future. b.some religious thinking gold can control sexual desire in her. c. ( nowadays some) consider them as servant for cooking, taking care of all, but will not help / assist for any reasons.

BUSINESS / Entertainment : a. consider women to serve the seniors or do small follow up work instead of taking help from their talent.  b. used as object to seduce customers in office, print, tv, movies.  c. free drinks in bar for ladies.

RELIGION :  a. to seduce and marry from other religion and convert their partner  b.make more children to increase the number of their religion. c. stoning them for having extra marital affair.

GOVT :  a. to produce children and fight in war  b. give incentives to increase the population country.  

RELATIONS :  a. lndian ritual of brother being protector of sister, instead of teaching her skills, educate, train to stand on her own ( few do and salute to them ).  b. some brother killing sister just to honor their religion.

FOOD INDUSTRY : promoting meat, daily products to lure them for better of their kids, but they don’t realize other mammals have feeling, love, affection for their children too.

COSMETICS / FASHION : product made by killing / abusing animals to promote beauty.

Advaita, Accupressure, Ayurveda, Bagavad Gita, Breathing Meditation, Jainism, Mahabharata ( as war in every human, not religious), Reiki, Sufism, Taoism, Transcendentalism, Veganism.

Aurobindo

Buddha

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff

Guru Nanik : Ik Ongkar

Henry David Thoreau : Nature.

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Maharvira

Mohandas Gandhi : Experiments with Truth,

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Osho - Rajnish

Paramahansa yogananda : Autobiography of yogi.

Rabindranath Tagore

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ramana Maharishi

Swami Vivekananda

we only complain about govt, institutions, media, religion.

* we as parents always threaten our children for punishments, and dream of fulfilling the wishes thru them to make money and serve us.

* we follow religion for free things, connection to make business, support for our fear or wrong doings.

* choose / appoint political candidates to favor our group / interests.

* we bribe others in hospital, schools and other places for ourselves / own family / children / friends.

* we support our govt to attack other nation, but don’t like attacking us.

* we make mistakes and ask for forgiveness, but seek severe punishment for others, even for minor offence.

* we don’t educate our daughters and prefer to pay dowry, to take care of her by in laws.

* we cheat other innocent, who believe or trust us, by thinking that we are smart or others are fool, but when somebody cheat us then we cry fowl.

* we don’t oppose / support anything on humanity ground for others, until it happens to self.

* We say we love god but don’t love the creation of God. 

* We say god is one but then divide people by caste, color, region.

* We want to eat non vegetarian, but if somebody else kills for us.

* We Like Gossip of celebrities, war games in magazine, tv, emails and blame media for spreading the rumour.

* We manipulate / steal from 50-100 other people to satisfy our 2-3 family members but complain about others wrong doing.

 * We invest in companies to make higher profits, who have to bribe govt for subsidy or benefits to show performance, but govt has to take from tax payers / individuals.

* We want to please god by offering him small money or food or flowers or candles which goes waste instead of helping the society, planet. also ask favor for self / family but not for other living beings.

* We dream, desire expensive cars, houses, luxury without understanding the supply chain or how it will comes to us.

is not crime, sin for 

* Religious Preacher to ask people to do rituals, follow dogmas, which goes against Creator and Creation or even the real guru preaching Like Guru Nanik, Buddha.

* Doctors for guiding cheaper or alternate medicine for poor people instead of prescribing expensive or useless medicines just for sake of oat / loyalty to medical institution.

* Politician to give statement that there will be flow of milk in rivers, which means sure abuse of other living beings.

 * Teachers supporting rich people children but not paying attention to poor in same class.

* People allowing govt to develop / buy / research weapons of mass destruction, which can kill innocent, children too along with others.

* Manufacturing, buying, selling, promoting goods which can harm the children if they consume or touch.

* Being Ignorant for self survival, not caring to know in details about dealing with products, services, investment which might kill living beings and destroy eco or even using child or forced labor.

* Having Children to please, family, society, nation but without properly planning / managing or even knowing to take care of child.

* Not supporting ( if not money or buying but moraly ) Genuine people, sme, who are doing good for people and planet, even if not following any religion / nation / mnc.

Thought that my knowledge from vast field, experience of long years would help my wife, child, but found that appreciation of their own feelings, blessings for them worked more better for harmony.

Thought that people get child as gift of love and keep parents bonded, but found that most expect their children to take care in old age, preferred boy or girl for ignorance / selfish reason, to get social securities from govt, using children to control other partner.

Thought Parents love me and bought so many things, but found that some money earned was depriving other children of basic education,

Thought education will help to make good living but job offered are like slave, follow company rules to make profit, show loyalty, instead of humanity or planet care even to promote religion any possible means ( 20th century).

Thought money will make children and old parents, happy, but they want love and care more.

Learnt different language and mastery of words, but found only smile and positive vibrations works to connect hearts.

Traveled the world, but peace, bliss, joy found, only within.

There are so many restaurants of different food, but very few can offer real healthy organic, vegan, non Gmo food.

Thought Science will develop good medicines to cure, but instead found more disease and torture on other living beings ( human and non human for testing) compare to traditional herbs and nature cure.

Thought protein and vitamins from animal will give more strength but seems it is making more aggressive, violent.

Thought religion will guide for better living, but they asked to follow dogmas, rituals, hate others or convert them, and even warned to convert self to other.

Thought will live happily with person but was forced to follow their religion.

Thought will let parents to choose life partner, but alas they insisted from same caste / religion.

Internet gave friends around world but could not make relation with family or neighbors.

Paid big amount for small piece of concrete building, but seems loosing gardens, farms and place for fresh air.

Watching various other living beings ( animals + birds) on TV, but losing their sight and sound from everyday life.

Travelling by flight, train, car but losing the place for Nature walk.

Sending Kids to expensive schools to develop their god gift and natural creativity but seems learning the discrimination by color, religion, region and to achieve goals and targets instead of helping the planet.

Paying taxes for better utilities and services, but alas it is going to few pockets, and buying / deveopment of arms and weapon of mass destruction.

Supported Govt to fight with other country, but alas the Police and security cameras are installed to spy on us.

Thought of making love with opposite gender in various positions, but getting various partners for same position.

Instead of good music, only things we get are advt, consumerism, singing the songs for nation / flag and dead heroes, voices of hate and fear, debates, violence in the name of art etc.

Very easy to teach lesson to person who steal few bucks or food from shop or somebody using swear words or bad sign lanugage, but want to support who steal from many or destroy other living beings or eco system and live with luxury.

THERE COULD NOT BE PERFECTION IN HUMAN, BUT ONLY IN UNIVERSE AND NATURE.

DONT

Buy / Invest / Promote any product, service, shares of company which are un ethical, 

Follow others or make any human being as God,

Trust Media or Govt or Group if Dividing people by religion, color, region,

DO

Appreciate, Praise the Good work done by others like humanity, care for planet instead of loyalty or honesty to person, company or nation for selfish reasons.

buy, promote, support any pure ethical / spiritual / vegan product or service ( subject owned by vegan too, as non vegans will try to benefit from such and put the fund in non vegan activities ) even if expensive this way will consume less.

Check, research, survey about project one is working, supporting for.

Find Alternative.

Have Faith in Universe.

Involve in Govt and have option of refusing the candidate if not satisfactory or suggesting the right one.

Meditate or walk at least for 30-45 min, anytime of the day.

Observe Self and other Living Beings beauty, instead of naming or judging them.

Pray, Bless loved ones, instead of preaching, telling, yelling them to follow one’s path.

AVOID

watching tv news, drama of conflicts, consumerism. 

Gossip, Spreading Rumour, emails, Jokes targeted on name or certain people

LET

others know that one is proud vegan, so they do not buy any non vegan gifts and if they cant buy, blessings are appreciated more than gifts.

the tenant stays if selling promoting products / services good for people and planet, if really rent difference big, be partner and share profit.

BE

Aware, Open, Compassionate, but not critical, ignorant nor oppose.

Accept Diversity due to weather, geo graphical, circumstances.

The value is according to printing done on paper.

Can be used to de stabilize economy of some country.

Creates poverty because it can buy the land /place, belonging to one gifted by Creator.

Creates Artificial / Materialistic Richness.

Turns Positive developments like Tv, Schools, Products into Negative by control with Money, donations, Bribes.

Tool of Corruption / Exploitation / Manipulation / Prostitution / Destruction .

Creates value of junk with help of appointing celebrity or sports person as brand ambassador or promoting in media.

Turns Relations sour by comparing the value of Love with Gifts and things.

BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE ASKING FOR CASH TO HELP OTHER OR PLANET.

AMAZING TRUTH

The religious individuals / ngo dont care how money is earned by the donor.

• In a day when you don’t come across any problems — you can be sure that you are traveling in the wrong path.

• Arise, awake and Stop not till the Goal is Reached.

• To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean”, says the persevering soul; “at my will mountains will crumble up”. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.

• Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? 

• Say, ‘This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.’ That which I created, I can demolish; that which is created by someone else, I shall never be able to destroy. Therefore, stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creators of your own destiny. All the strength and succour you want is within ourselves.

• We must overcome difficulty by constant practice. We must learn that nothing can happen to us unless we make ourselves susceptible to it.

• Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

• Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

• This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

• You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

• When we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is meant by brotherhood or mankind, and not before.

• External nature is only internal nature writ large.

• The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

• The will is not free—it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect—but there is something behind the will which is free.

• The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him—that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

• Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

• You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

• The goal of mankind is knowledge… . Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. 

• If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

• The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat or cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything.

• It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world — that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you are not understanding it in the right light. throw the burden on yourselves!

• All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

• If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

• Nirvana can be attained here and now, that we do not have to wait for death to reach it. Nirvana is the realization of the Self; and after having once known that, if only for an instant, never again can one be deluded by the mirage of personality.

• There is no sin but only error. And the greatest error, is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

• Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

• “Comfort” is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being “comfortable.”

• “Face the brutes.” That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

• A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

• A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss.

• 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.

• All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

• All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

• Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.

• Anything that is secret and mysterious in these systems of yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. 

• Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

• 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.

• As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.

• As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid?

• As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.

• Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.”

• Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is His business.

• Blows are what awaken us and help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world and make us long to escape, to have freedom.

• Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.

• Come out into the universe of Light. Everything in the universe is yours, stretch out your arms and embrace it with love. If you every felt you wanted to do that, you have felt God.

• 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.

• Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

• Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

• Don’t look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

• 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.

• 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.

• Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

• 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.

• Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.

• 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.

• Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

• First get rid of the delusion “I am the body,” then only will we want real knowledge.

• 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.

• Go on saying, “I am free.” Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, “I am bound.” Dehypnotize the whole thing.

• 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.

• God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.

• Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

• Have you got the will to surmount mountain-high obstructions? If the whole world stands against you sword in hand, would you still dare to do what you think is right?

• He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong.

• Hold to the idea, “I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act,” and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.

• However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.

• I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.

• I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves.

• If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.

• 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.”

• 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.

• 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.

• Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.

• Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman—all is Atman! Give up the identification with the body, and stand up!

• It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.

• It is the cheerful mind that is persevering. It is the strong mind that hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

• 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.

• Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

• Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. It is not in the brain but in the heart that the Atman, possessed of knowledge, power, and activity, has its seat.

• Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege.

• Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and dies; but the Self we see as Vivekananda is never born and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality.

• Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

• No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person.

• One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth.

• Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.

• Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom—physical, mental, and spiritual—and help others to do so.

• Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through selfless work.

• Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already.You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.

• Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.

• 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.

• Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

• Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

• Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.

• So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

• Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted, cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.

• Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.

• Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore make your own future.

• 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.

• Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.

• Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

• Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

• there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.

• The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in heart can see the King. While we think of the world, it is only the world for us; but let us come to it with the feeling that the world is God, and we shall have God.

• The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!

• The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom.

• The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence.

• The important thing is: how much less you think of the body, of yourself as matter—as dead, dull, insentient matter; how much more you think of yourself as shining immortal being.

• The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are, the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do. When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.

• The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

• The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.

• The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.

• The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

• The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments.

• The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

• The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

• The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe—the body—is the soul.

• The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible.

• The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.

• The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free.

• The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

• There cannot be friendship without equality.

• There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself…. Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see Truth.

• There is only one sin. That is weakness…. The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.

• This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.

• 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, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share.

• Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth—Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God.

• To believe blindly is to degenerate the human soul. Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.

• Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

• Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature.

• Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

• We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.

• We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

• 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?

• We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.

• We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.

• We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

• What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.

• When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it is work every moment and rest every moment.

• When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning.

• Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

• 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.

• Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.

• Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.

• Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.

• Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry. The soul has no sex, no country, no place, no time.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean”, says the persevering soul; “at my will mountains will crumble up”. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.

• Vedânta philosophy : Lectures on Râja Yoga, Ch. VI : Pratyâhâra and Dhâraṇâ

Address the World Parliament of Religions (1893 )

• I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration but we accept all religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth. 
• “As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee…
• a declaration to the world of the wonderful doctrine preached in the Gita: ‘Whosoever comes to me, though whatsoever form, I reach him; all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to me.’
• Sectarianism, bigotry, and it’s horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful Earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now.
  But their time is come; and I fervently hope that the bell that tolled this morning in honour of this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings between persons wending their way to the same goal.

OTHER WORDS

anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject as poison, there is no life in it, it cannot be true. Truth is strengthening. Truth is purity, truth is all-knowledge. I would rather see everyone of you rank atheists than superstitious fools, for the atheist is alive, and you can make something of him. But if superstition enters, the brain is gone, the brain is softening, degradation has seized upon the life. Mystery-mongering and superstition are always signs of weakness.

Experience is the only source of knowledge. The same methods of investigation which we apply to the sciences and to exterior knowledge should be applied to religion. If a religion is destroyed by such investigation and found it was nothing but a useless and unworthy superstition; the sooner it disappeared the better. Why religions should claim that they are not bound to abide by the standpoint of reason no one knows. For it is better that mankind should become atheist by following reason than blindly believe on the authority of anybody. Perhaps there are prophets, who have passed the limits of sense and obtained a glimpse of the beyond. We shall believe it only when we can do the same ourselves; not before. It is said that reason is not strong enough, that often it makes mistakes. If reason is weak why should a body of priests be considered any better guides?

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within, by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy — by one, or more, or all of these — and be free.

The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

This world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

It is the coward and the fool who says, This is my fate – so says the Sanskrit proverb. But it is the strong man who stands up and says, I will make my own fate.