PEARLS OF WISDOM.

(1). Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great:
(a). Conviction of the powers of goodness.
(b). Absence of jealousy and suspicion.
(c). Helping all who are trying to be, and do good. (Swami Vivekananda).
(2). The Main Condition For Realisation Is Purity: Our whole individuality must be purified. At the present time, it has become most impure, coloured, as it is, by physical and mental desires, passions, instincts, etc. To the purified mind, the Lord reveals Himself in a flash. So, what stands between us and realisation, is just that impurity. Nothing else. If we were pure, realisation would reveal itself in a moment. Never blame anybody else, never blame circumstances, but go and blame yourselves. The fault is yours and yours alone. Peace can be had only by refusing to become identified with any of the limiting adjuncts. There are friends and friends. You should make the SELF your friend and give up all false friends, however, plesant they are. The false friend always helps you in clinging to false conceptions, to false personalities, and above all to himself. This is one of the greatest obstructions, we create for ourselves and it must be removed. There should be no clinging, no aversion, no likes and dislikes, but a dispassionate aloofness; uncaused love, radiating everywhere, without ever raising any personal end, no personal object in view. The conception of GOD WITH ATTRIBUTES BUT WITHOUT FORM, corresponds to the ocean, GOD WITH ATTRIBUTES AND WITH FORM, is the mighty wave. And we are just the bubbles. [Source: Readings On The Gospel Of Sri Ramakrishna / Notes on class-talks delivered to an intimate group of European students at Wiesbaden, Germany on 11th May, 1934 (Vol. 1; 111-114). (Swami Vivekananda).
(3). Fire and Enthusiasm must be in our blood. No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. (Swami Vivekananda).
(4). Call it God, Love, Spirit, Allah, Jehovah - it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man. (Swami Vievkananda).
(5). Think day and night, this universe is zero. Only God is. Have intense desire to get free. (Swami Vivekananda).
(6).     

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