The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Sangsar Jeno Bishalaksir Da, Nouka Dahe Ekbar Porle Aar Raksa Nai.
This world is like whirlpool. Once a boat gets into it there is no
hope of its rescue.
P. 96 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

The Gospel of The Holy Mother

You are a devotee. Devotees are casteless.
P. 292 The Gospel of The Holy Mother

The Gospel of The Holy Mother

Only those who belong to a high spiritual category can become monks
and liberate themselves from all kinds of fetters. Some, again, are
born just to enjoy the world. P. 291 The Gospel of The Holy Mother

The Gospel of Strength - Swami Vivekananda

We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own
faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else. Men in
general lay all the blame of life on their fellow-men, or, failing
that, on God, or they conjure up a ghost, and say it is fate. Where is
fate, and what is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our
own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

You know in your inmost heart that many of your limited ideas, this
humbling of yourself and praying and weeping to imaginary beings are
superstitions. Tell me one case where these prayers have been
answered. All the answers that came were from your own hearts.

In your ignorance, every prayer that you made and that was answered,
you thought was answered by some being, but you answered the prayer
yourself unknowingly. The help came from yourself, and you fondly
imagined that someone was sending help to you. There is no help for
you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe... These
are words that will burn up the dross that is in the mind, words that
will bring out the tremendous energy which is within you already, the
infinite power which is sleeping in your heart.

Swami Vivekananda epistle...

I like to work on calmly and silently, and the Lord is always with me.
Follow me, if you will, by being intensely sincere, perfectly
unselfish, and above all, by being perfectly pure. My blessings go
with you.

From Chicago: January 11, 1895. Letter to G. G. Narasimhachariar.
Complete Works, 5: 65

P. 87 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Once a person has faith he has achieved everything. There is nothing
greater faith.

P. 87 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

P. 91 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Dekho, Hanumaner Ki Bhab! Dhan, Maan, Dehasukh Kichu-I Chay Na; Kebol
Bhagaban-Ke Chay.

Just imagine Hanuman's state of mind. He didn't care for money, honor,
creature comforts, or anything else. He longed only for God. P. 91 The
Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Edgar Cayce Reading 4047-2

The purpose in life, then, is not the gratifying of appetites nor of
any selfish desires, but it is that the entity, the soul, may make the
earth, where the entity finds its consciousness, a better place in
which to live.

Edgar Cayce Reading 4047-2

P. 291 The Gospel of The Holy Mother

Why, can't a married man lead a virtuous life? It is through the mind
that one achieves everything. Didn't the Master marry me?
P. 291 The Gospel of The Holy Mother

The Gospel of Strength - Swami Vivekananda

You may pray to everyone that was ever born, but who will come to
help you?... Help thyself out by thyself. None else can help thee,
friend... Get hold of the Self, then. Stand up. Don't be afraid. In
the midst of all miseries and all weakness, let the Self come out,
faint and imperceptible though it be at first.

The one great question asked by Vedanta is: why are people so afraid?
The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependant on
others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything for ourselves.
We want a personal god, a saviour or a prophet to do everything for
us... If everything is done for a man by another he will lose the use
of his own limbs. Anything we do ourselves, that is the only thing we
do. Anything that is done by another never can be ours... All this
running after help is foolishness.

You know, there are bullock carts... sometimes a sheaf of straw is
dangled at the tip of the pole, a little in front of the bulls but
beyond their reach. The bulls try continually to feed upon the straw,
but never succeed. That is exactly how we are helped! We think we are
going to get security, strength, wisdom, happiness from the outside.
We always hope but never realize our hope. Never does any help come
from the outside.