Edgar Cayce Reading 2574-1

In Him there are no limitations. One only limits self by doubt or fear.

Edgar Cayce Reading 2574-1

The Gospel of Strength - Swami Vivekananda

Hear day and night that you are that Soul. Repeat it to yourselves
day and night till it enters into your very veins, till it tingles in
every drop of blood, till it is in your flesh and bone. Let the whole
body be full of that one ideal, "I am the birthless, the deathless,
the blissful, the omniscient, the omnipotent, ever-glorious Soul."
Think on it day and night; think on it till it becomes part and parcel
of your life. Meditate upon it... All your actions will be magnified,
transformed, deified, by the very power of thought. If matter is
powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring this thought to bear upon your
life, fill yourselves with the thought of your almightiness, your
majesty and your glory.

These conceptions of Vedanta must come out, must remain not only in
the forest, not only in the cave, but they must come out to work at
the bar and the bench, in the pulpit, and in the cottage of the poor
man, with the fishermen that are catching fish, and with the students
that are studying... If the fisherman thinks that he is the Spirit, he
will be a better fisherman; if the student thinks that he is the
Spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks that he is
the Spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on...

You have now to make the character of Mahavira [Hanuman] your
ideal... He was a perfect master of his senses and wonderfully
sagacious. You have now to build your life on this great ideal of
personal service. Through that, all the other ideals will gradually
manifest in life. Obedience to the guru without questioning, and
strict observance of Brahmacharya - this is the secret of success. As
on the one hand Hanuman represents the ideal of service, so on the
other he represents leonine courage, striking the whole world with awe.

Karma Yoga. New York, 1896. Complete Works, 1: 109 - Swami Vivekananda

All the great systems of ethics teach absolute unselfishness as the
goal. When a man reaches this absolute selfishness, he is no more the
little Mr. So-and-so. He acquires infinite expansion. The little
personality which he had before is now lost to him for ever. He
becomes infinite. The attainment of this expansion is indeed the goal
of all religions and of all moral and philosophical teachings.

Karma Yoga. New York, 1896. Complete Works, 1: 109

The Gospel of Strength

You must know what you are, what your real nature is. You must become
conscious of that infinite nature within. Then your bondage will
burst.

Think all of you that you ate the infinitely powerful Atman, and see
what strength comes out.

"Knowledge is power," says the proverb, does it not? It is through
knowledge that power comes. Man has got to know that he is a man of
infinite power and strength. Really he himself is by his own nature
potent and omniscient. And this he must know. And the more he becomes
conscious of his own Self, the more he manifests this power, and his
bonds break and at last he becomes free.

The Gospel of The Holy Mother

Remember this much: 'I have someone to look after me. There is
certainly a Mother or Father.' P. 242 The Gospel of The Holy Mother

The Gospel of Strength - The Source of Strength - Soul!

What we need is strength; who will give us strength? There are
thousands to weaken us and of stories we have had enough. Every one of
our Puranas, if you press it, gives out stories enough to fill three-
fourths of the libraries of the world. Everything that can weaken us
as a race we have had for the last thousand years... Therefore, my
friends, as one of your blood, as one that lives and dies with you,
let me tell you that we want strength, strength, and everytime
strength. And the Upanishads are the great mine of strength. Therein
lies strength enough to invigorate the whole world; the whole world
can vivified, made strong, energised through them.

Strength, strength is what the Upahishads speak to me from every
page. This is the one great thing to remember, it has been the one
great lesson I have been taught in my life. Strength, it says,
strength, O man, be not weak. Are there no human weaknesses? - says
man. There are, say the Upanishads, but will more weakness heal them?
Would you try to wash dirt with dirt? Will sin cure sin? Will weakness
cure weakness? Strength, O man, strength, say the UPanishads, stand up
and be strong.

First step in getting strength is to uphold the Upanishads, and
believe - "I am the soul," "Me the sword cannot cut; nor weapons
pierce; me the fire cannot burn; me the air cannot dry; I am the
Omnipotent, I am the Omniscient." So repeat these blessed saving words
and be strong.