The Gospel of Strength

You must learn to make the physique very strong and teach the same to
others... Body and mind must run parallel... When the necessity of
strengthening the physique is brought home to people, they wll exert
themselves of their own accord.

This is not the time with us to weep even in joy; we have had weeping
enough; no more is this the time for us to become soft. This softness
has been with us till we have become like masses of cotton and are
dead. What our country now wants are muscles of iron and nerves of
steel, gigantic wills which nothing can resist, which can penetrate
into the mysteries and the secrets of the universe, and will
accomplish their purpose in any fashion even if it meant going down to
the bottom of the ocean and meeting death face to face.

If you, my sons, can proclaim this message to the world - "Yield not
to unmanliness, O son of Pritha; it does not befit thee" - then all
this disease, grief, sin and sorrow will vanish off from the face of
the earth in three days.

The Gospel of Strength - Swami Vivekananda

We speak of many things parrot-like, but never do them; speaking and
not doing has become a habit with us. What is the cause of that?
Physical weakness. This sort of weak brain is not able to do anything;
we must strengthen it.

You are lions, you are souls, pure, infinite, and perfect. The might
of the universe is within you. Why weepest thou my friend?

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with
an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.

Edgar Cayce Reading 487-17

. . those that find fault with others will find fault in themselves;
for they are writing their own record--they must meet, every one, that
which they have said about another; for so is the image, the soul of
the Creator in each body, and when ye speak evil of or unkindly to thy
brother, thou hast done it unto thy God.

Edgar Cayce Reading 487-17

The Gospel of The Holy Mother

Why entertain any fear? All conditions can turn favourable by the
will of the Master.
P. 241 The Gospel of The Holy Mother

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.

The Gospel of Strength - Swami Vivekananda

One stumbles more than another, and him who stumbles more we call
bad, him who stumbles less we call good... The difference is not one
of kind, but of degree.

In spite of the greatness of the Upanishads, in spite of our boasted
ancestry of sages, compared to many other races, I must tell you that
we are weak, very weak. First of all is our physical weakness. That
physical weakness is the cause of at least one-third of our miseries.

Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces are
still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist has known all
that is in man? Millions of years have passed since man first came
here, and yet but one infinitesimal part of his powers has been
manifested. Therefore, you must not say that you are weak. How do you
know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You
know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the
ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

Gems of Gospel of Holy Mother P. 239

Whenever any evil thought haunts you, tell your mind: 'Being her
child, can I stoop so low as to indulge in any such activity?' You
will find that you gain strength and peace of mind. P. 239 The Gospel
of The Holy Mother

The Gospel of Strength - Swami Vivekananda

Arise, awake! Awake from this hypnotism of weakness. None is really
weak; the soul is infinite, omnipotent and omniscient. Stand up,
assert yourself, procalim the God within you, do not deny Him! Too
much of inactivity, too much of weakness, too much of hypnotism has
been and is upon our race... De-hypnotise yourselves. The way to do
that is found in your own sacred books. Teach yourselves, teach
everyone his real nature, call upon the sleeping soul and see how it
awakens. Power will come, glory will come, goodness will come, purity
will come, and everything that is excellent will come when this
sleeping soul is roused to self-conscious activitiy.

The more I live, the more I become convinced everyday that every
human being is dinine. In no man or woman, however vile, does that
divinity die.

Studying the external alone, man begins to feel himself to be
nothing. These vast powers of nature, these tremendous changes
occurring - whole communities wiped off the face of the earth in a
twinkling of time, one volcanic eruption shattering to pieces whole
continents - perceiving and studying these things, man begins to feel
himself weak. Therefore it is not the study of external nature that
makes one strong. But there is the internal nature of man - a million
times more powerful than any volcanic eruption or any law of nature -
which conquers nature, triumphs over all its laws. And that alone
teaches man what he is.

Swami Vivekananda , Conversation with disciples.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even
thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart
the strength of a lion. I love you all ever so much, but I wish you
all to die working for others--I should rather be glad to see you do
that!

Conversation with Priya Nath Sinha. Recorded in Bengali. Complete Works, 5: 382