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Marriage and sex and money the only living devils.
Swami Vivekananda
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Swami Vivekananda
Age: 39 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 12
Died: 1902
Died: July 4
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The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the be-all and end-all, then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others, but take care they do not become a bondage.
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Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.
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All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute all truth in the universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure.
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The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.
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Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
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Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience there is no other way to know.
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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.
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Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance.
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I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.
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Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.
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May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!
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Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.
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We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
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