2nd November 2022- The hardest hearts feel sympathy for beings sometimes. Even the man who gets frightened if he is told that this assumed individuality is really a delusion, that it is ignoble to try to cling to this apparent individuality, that very man will tell you that extreme self-abnegation is the center of all morality. And what is perfect self-abnegation? It means the abnegation of this apparent self, the abnegation of all selfishness.
3rd November 2022- There must be perfect chastity in thought, word, and deed; without it the practice of Raja Yoga is dangerous, and may lead to insanity. If people practice Raja Yoga and at the same time lead an impure life, how can they expect to become yogis?
4th November 2022- When we cease to see evil, the world must end for us, since to rid us of that mistake is its only object. To think there is imperfection creates it. Thoughts of strength and perfection alone can cure it. Do what good you can, some evil will inhere in it; but do all without regard to personal result, give up all the results to the Lord, then neither good or evil will effect you.
7th November 2022- First clearly grasp what I say and only then accept it. Sri Ramakrishna always used to insist on my accepting every word of his only after clear comprehension of it. Walk on your path, only with sound principle, clear reasoning and what scriptures declare as true. By constant reflection, the intellect will become clear, and only then can Brahman be reflected therein. Do you understand?
8th November 2022- Why should you have any duty? Resign everything unto God. In this tremendous fiercy furnace where the fire of duty scorches everybody, drink this cup of nectar and be happy. We are all simply working out God’s will, and have nothing to do with rewards and punishments. If you want the reward, you must also be ready for the punishment. The only way to get out of the punishment is to give up the reward.
9th November 2022- ācāra, or observance of the estabilished rules of conduct in life, is the first step in religion, and of that again, cleanliness of body, and mind, cleanliness in everything, is the most important factor.
10th November 2022- We hear “Be good,” and “Be good,” and “Be good,” taught all over the world. There is hardly a child, born in any country in the world, who has not been told, “Do not steal,” “Do not tell lie,” but nobody tells the child how he can help doing them. Talking will not help him. Why should he not become a thief? We do not teach how not to steal; we simply tell him, “Do not steal.” Only when we teach the child to control his mind do we really help him.
11th November 2022- It occurs to me that even if a thousand births have to be taken in order to relive the sorrows of the world, surely I will take them. By me doing that, if even a single soul may have a little bit of their grief relieved, I will do it. What’s the point of seeking merely one’s own liberation?
14th November 2022- What is the utility, the effect, the result, of this knowledge (of one’s infinite nature)? In these days, we have to measure everything by utility- by how many dollars it represents. What right has a person to ask that truth should be judged by the standard of utility or money? Suppose there is no utility, will it be less true? Utility is not the test of truth. Nevertheless, there is the highest utility in this.
15th November 2022- Don’t listen to the words of those who say, “We shall both live the worldy life and also be knowers of Brahman.” That is the flattering self-consolation of crypto-peasure-seekers.
17th November 2022- So long as there will be in human society such a thing as the triumph of the strong over the weak, animal food is required; otherwise the weak will naturally be crushed under the feet of the strong. It will not to quote solitary instances of the good effect of vegetable food on some particular person or persons: compare one nation and another, and then draw conclusions.
18th November 2022- Doing work is not religion, but work done rightly leads to freedom.
21th November 2022- All earthly love proceeds from the body. No sex, no possessions; as all fall off, the eyes open to spiritual vision. The soul regains its own infinite power.
22nd November 2022- The only way of getting out of misery is by giving up the idea of happiness, because these two are linked to each other. On one side there is happiness, on the other, there is misery. On one side there is life, on the other, there is death. The only way to get beyond death is to give up the love of life. Life and death are the same thing, looked at from different points.
So the idea of happiness without misery, or of life without death, is very good for school children; the thinker sees that it is all a contradiction in terms and gives up both.
24th November 2022- It is a mysterious law of nature that as soon as the field is ready the seed must come, as soon as the soul wants religion, the transmitter of religious force must come. “The seeking sinner meeteth the seeking Savior.” When the power that attracts in the receiving soul is full and ripe, the power which answers to that attraction must come.
25th November 2022- Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have… Think Twice act Wise.
Pratyaahaar means “gathering towards,” checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom; before that we are mere machines.
28th November 2022- There is no greater Dharma than the service of living beings. If this Dharma can be practiced in the real spirit, then “Muktih kara-phalaayate- Liberation comes as a fruit on the very plam of one’s hand.”
29th November 2022- Happiness is what everyone is seeking for, but the majority seek it in things which are evanscent and not real. No happiness was ever found in the senses. There never was a person who found happiness in the senses or in the enjoyment of the senses. Happiness is found only in the Spirit.
30th November 2022- See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.