3rd March 2023- Life is a series of fights and disillusionment. The secret of life is not enjoyment, but education through experience. But, alas, we are called off the moment we begin really to learn.
7th March 2023- The network of words is like a huge forest in which the human mind loses itself and finds no way out. The various methods of joining words, the various methods of speaking a beautiful language, the various methods of explaining the dicta of the scriptures, are only for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not attain perfection; they are simply desirous to show their learning, so that the world may praise them and see that they are learned men.
8th March 2023- One principle Vedanta lays down is that we are divine, that all this which we see around us is the outcome of that consciousness of the divine. Everything that is strong, and good, and powerful in human nature is the outcome of that divinity, and though potential in many, there is no difference between people essentially, all being alike divine.
9th March 2023- In us are two- the God-soul and the human-soul. The sages know that the latter is but the shadow, that the former is the real sun.
10th March 2023- God is ever active. All power is his and within his command. Through his command the winds blow, the sun shines, the earth lives, and death stalks upon the earth (Katha Upanishad, 2.3.3). God is the all in all. God is all and in all. We can only worship God.
13th March 2023- Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life- think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way of success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced. Others are mere talking machines.
14th March 2023- Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die. Societies should be moulded upon truth, and truth has not to adjust itself to society. If such a noble truth as unselfishness cannot be practiced in society, it is better for man to give up society and go into the forest. That is the daring man.
15th March 2023- If you can visualize the Atman, which is within you, as your own self, and disregard this mass of matter, this body of yours, which you feel is you- if you can do that, then there is no more rebirth for you.
16th March 2023- What was there in India before Buddha’s advent? Only a number of religious principles recorded on bundles of palm leaves- and those too known only to a few. It was Lord Buddha who brought them down to the practical field and showed how to apply them in daily life. In sense, he was the living embodiment of true Vedanta.
18th March 2023- The man Swami Vivekananda is in nature, is born, and dies; but the self which we see as Swami Vivekananda is never born and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality.
20th March 2023- In ancient India the centers of national life were always the intellectual and spiritual and not political. — The outburst of national life was round colleges of sages and spiritual teachers.
21st March 2023- All work has its ups and downs, its periods of intensity and slackness. Again it will rise up. What fear?
22nd March 2023- If we really want to be yogis and be blessed, and make others blessed, we must go deeper. The first step is not to disturb the mind, not to associate with persons whose ideas are disturbing. All of you know that certain persons, certain places, certain foods, repel you. Avoid them; and those who want to go to the highest, must avoid all company, good or bad.
23rd March 2023- When the whole world is a form of the Supreme Being, the eternal Atman, what is there to wonder at the special influence attached to places of pilgrimage? There are places where God manifests specially, either spontaneously or through the earnest longing of pure souls. When ordinary people visit those places with faith, they attain the spiritual goal quite easily.
24th March 2023- Consciously or unconsciously, every one is trying to unfold the divinity within. We are like an infinite spring, coiled up in a small box, and that spring is trying to unfold itself; and all the social phenomena that we see around us are neither the causes of these unfoldments, nor the effects. As one of our great philosophers says in the case of the irrigation of a field, the tank is somewhere upon a higher level, and the water is trying to rush into the field, and is barred by a gate. But as soon as the gate is opened, the water rushes in by its own nature; and if there is dust and dirt in the way, the water rolls over them. But dust and dirt are neither the result nor the cause of this unfolding of our divine nature. They are co-existent circumstances and therefore, can be remedied.
27th March 2023- While working we should never think that we can help anyone in this universe. We cannot. We only help ourselves in this gymnasium of the world. This is the proper attitude toward work. If we work in this way, if we always remember that our present opportunity to work is thus a privilege which has been given to us, we shall never be attached to anything.
28th March 2023- There is, as it were, an infinite ocean behind, and you and I are so many waves, coming out of that infinite ocean; and each one of us is trying our best to manifest that infinite outside. Potentially, each one of us has that infinite ocean of Existence, Knowlegde, and Bliss as our birthright, our real nature; and the difference between us is caused by the greater or lesser power to manifest that divine.
29th March 2023- There are two sorts of courage. One is the courage of facing the cannon. And the other is the courage of spiritual conviction.
30th March 2023- Unless we join the mind with the senses, we get no report from eyes, nose, ears, etc. The external organs are used by the power of the mind. Do not let the senses go outside, and then you can get rid of (the awareness of) body and the external world.
31st March 2023- To those who are full of Tamas, ignorant and dull- those whose minds never get fixed on any idea, who only crave for something to amuse them- religion and philosophy are simply objects of entertainment. Such people have no perseverance. They hear a talk, think it very nice, and then go home and forget all about it.