Wednesday, November 28, 2007

The Gospel of Strength - Swami Vivekananda

Say not man is a sinner. Tell him that he is a God.

Silly fools tell you that you are sinners, and you sit down in a
corner and weep. It is foolishness, wickedness,
down-right rascality to say that you are sinners! You are all God.

The greatest error, says the Vedanta, is to say that you are weak,
that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no
power and you cannot do this and that. Every time you think in that
way, you, as it were, rivet one more link in the chain that binds you
down, you add one more layer of hypnotism into your own soul .
Therefore, whosoever thinks he is weak is wrong, whosoever thinks he
is impure is wrong, and is throwing a bad thought into the world.

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