I feel as if a thunderbolt strikes me on the head when I hear people dwell on negative thoughts. That sort of self-depreciating attitude is another name for disease -- do you call that humility? It is vanity in disguise!
"न लिङ्गं धर्मकारणं, समता सर्वभूतेषु एतन्मुक्तस्य लक्षणम् -- the external badge does not confer spirituality.
It is same-sightedness to all beings which is the test of a liberated soul."
"अस्ति अस्ति (It is, It is),"
"सोऽहं सोऽहं," "चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहं शिवोऽहं"--"I am He!", "I am Shiva, of the essence of Knowledge and Bliss!"
"निर्गच्छति जगज्जलात् पिन्जरादिव केशरी -- he frees himself from the meshes of this world as a lion from its cage!"
"नायमात्मा बलहीनेन लभ्य -- this Atman is not accessible to the weak". . . .
Hurl yourselves on the world like an avalanche -- let the world crack in twain under your weight!
Hara! Hara! Mahadeva!
उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानम् -- one must save the self by one's own self"-- by personal prowess.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Brother Disciple from
New York (September 1894)
"न लिङ्गं धर्मकारणं, समता सर्वभूतेषु एतन्मुक्तस्य लक्षणम् -- the external badge does not confer spirituality.
It is same-sightedness to all beings which is the test of a liberated soul."
"अस्ति अस्ति (It is, It is),"
"सोऽहं सोऽहं," "चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहं शिवोऽहं"--"I am He!", "I am Shiva, of the essence of Knowledge and Bliss!"
"निर्गच्छति जगज्जलात् पिन्जरादिव केशरी -- he frees himself from the meshes of this world as a lion from its cage!"
"नायमात्मा बलहीनेन लभ्य -- this Atman is not accessible to the weak". . . .
Hurl yourselves on the world like an avalanche -- let the world crack in twain under your weight!
Hara! Hara! Mahadeva!
उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानम् -- one must save the self by one's own self"-- by personal prowess.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Brother Disciple from
New York (September 1894)
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