Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every page.
This is the one great thing to remember, it has been the one great lesson I have been taught in my life; strength, it says, strength, O man, be not weak.
Are there no human weaknesses?-- says man.
There are, say the Upanishads, but will more weakness heal them, would you try to wash dirt with dirt? Will sin cure sin, weakness cure weakness?
Strength, O man, strength, say the Upanishads, stand up and be strong.
Ay, it is the only literature in the world where you find the word "Abhih", "fearless", used again and again; in no other scripture in the world is this adjective applied either to God or to man. Abhih, fearless!
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Madras,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
This is the one great thing to remember, it has been the one great lesson I have been taught in my life; strength, it says, strength, O man, be not weak.
Are there no human weaknesses?-- says man.
There are, say the Upanishads, but will more weakness heal them, would you try to wash dirt with dirt? Will sin cure sin, weakness cure weakness?
Strength, O man, strength, say the Upanishads, stand up and be strong.
Ay, it is the only literature in the world where you find the word "Abhih", "fearless", used again and again; in no other scripture in the world is this adjective applied either to God or to man. Abhih, fearless!
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Madras,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
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