The glory of Krishna is not that he was Krishna, but that he was the great teacher of Vedanta…Persons are but the embodiments, the illustration of principles.
If the principles are there, the persons will come by the thousands and millions.
But if the principle is lost and forgotten and the whole of national life tries to cling round a so-called historical person, woe unto that religion, danger unto that religion!
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I was asked by a young lady in London, “What have you Hindus done? You have never even conquered a single nation.” That is true from the point of view of the Englishman…
If I ask myself what has been the cause of India’s greatness, I answer, because we have never conquered.
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There is no mystery in religion…Mystery mongering and superstition are always signs of weakness…
Shame on humanity that strong men should spend their time on these superstitions, spend all their time in inventing allegories to explain the most rotten superstitions of the world.
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There is no limitation to knowledge, there is no omniscience exclusively the property of any one sage in ancient or modern times. If there have been Vyasas and Valmikis and Shankaracharyas in ancient times, why may not each one of you become a Shankaracharya?
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Religion is not going to church, or putting marks on the forehead, or dressing in a peculiar fashion.
You may paint yourselves in all the colours of the rainbow, but if the heart has not been opened, if you have not realised God, it is all vain.
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Whatever you believe, that you will be.
If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow…
For if there is one common doctrine that runs through all our apparently fighting and contradictory sects, it is that all glory, power, and purity are within the soul already.
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