Swami Vivekananda
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SUNDAY, July 28, 1895 . ( Avadhuta Gita or "Song of the Purified" by Dattâtreya (Dattatreya, the son of Atri and Anasuyâ, was an incarnation of Brahmâ, Vishnu and Shiva.)) "All knowledge depends upon calmness of mind." "He who has filled the universe, He who is Self in self, how shall I salute Hi
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SATURDAY, July 27, 1895 . ( Kathopanishad ) Learn not the truth of the Self save from one who has realised it; in all others it is mere talk. Realisation is beyond virtue and vice, beyond future and past; beyond all the pairs of opposites. "The stainless one sees the Self, and an eternal calm com
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FRIDAY, July 26, 1895 . ( Brihadâranyakopanishad .) Love all things only through and for the Self. Yâjnavalkya said to Maitreyi, his wife, "Through the Atman we know all things." The Atman can never be the object of knowledge, nor can the Knower be known. He who knows he is the Atman, he is law u
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THURSDAY, July 25, 1895 . ( Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms ) "Things may be done, caused to be done, or approved of", and the effect upon us is nearly equal. Complete continence gives great intellectual and spiritual power. The Brahmachârin must be sexually pure in thought, word, and deed. Lose regar
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WEDNESDAY, July 24, 1895 . The powers acquired by the practice of Yoga are not obstacles for the Yogi who is perfect, but are apt to be so for the beginner, through the wonder and pleasure excited by their exercise. Siddhis are the powers which mark success in the practice; and they may be produc
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TUESDAY, July 23, 1895 . ( Bhagavad-Gita, Karma-Yoga ) To attain liberation through work, join yourself to work but without desire, looking for no result. Such work leads to knowledge, which in turn brings emancipation. To give up work before you know , leads to misery. Work done for the Self gi
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SUNDAY, July 21, 1895 . ( Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms ) Yoga is the science of restraining the Chitta (mind) from breaking into Vrittis (modifications). Mind is a mixture of sensation and feelings, or action and reaction; so it cannot be permanent. The mind has a fine body and through this it wor
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SATURDAY, July 20, 1895 . Perception is our only real knowledge or religion. Talking about it for ages will never make us know our soul. There is no difference between theories and atheism. In fact, the atheist is the truer man. Every step I take in the light is mine for ever. When you go to a co
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FRIDAY, July 19, 1895 . So long as I say "you", I have the right to speak of God protecting us. When I see another, I must take all the consequences and put in the third, the ideal, which stands between us; that is the apex of the triangle. The vapour becomes snow, then water, then Ganga; but whe
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THURSDAY, July 18, 1895 . ( The lesson today was mainly Shankara's argument against the conclusion of the Sânkhya philosophy .) The Sankhyas say that consciousness is a compound, and beyond that, the last analysis gives us the Purusha, Witness, but that there are many Purushas — each of us is one
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WEDNESDAY, July 17, 1895 . Râmânuja divides the universe into Chit, Achit, and Ishvara — man, nature, and God; conscious, subconscious, and superconscious. Shankara, on the contrary, says that Chit, the soul, is the same as God. God is truth, is knowledge, is infinity; these are not qualities. Any
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TUESDAY, July 16, 1895 . ( Shankara ) The "unseen cause" (Or mass of subtle impressions.) leads us to sacrifice and worship, which in turn produce seen results; but to attain liberation we must first hear, then think or reason, and then meditate upon Brahman. The result of works and the result of