பொன்மொழிகள் - சுவாமி விவேகானந்தர்

நேற்று சுவாமி விவேகானந்தரின் பிறந்த தினத்தையொட்டி அவரின் கருத்துக்களை நினைவுகூரலாம் என எண்ணியிருந்தேன். இன்று தான் முடிந்தது.

Ø  Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

Ø  They alone live who live for others, rest are more dead than alive.

Ø  Arise! Awake! And stop not till the goal is reached.

Ø  To be good and to do good – that is the whole of religion.

Ø  Strength is life, Weakness is death.

Ø  All the power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that; don’t believe that you are weak. Stand up and express the divinity within you.

Ø  Whatever you think, that you will be; if you think yourself strong; strong you will be.

Ø  Stand and die in your own strength; if there is any sin in the world, it is weakness; avoid all weakness; for weakness is sin, weakness is death.

Ø  Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is Character that cleaves through adamantine walls of difference.

Ø  He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religion said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.

Ø  The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

Ø  Help if you can; if you cannot, fold your hands and stand by and see things go on. Do not injure, if you cannot render help.

Ø  Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great.

1.   Conviction of the powers of goodness.

2.   Absence of jealousy and suspicion.

3.   Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

Ø  Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

Ø  Misery comes through attachment, not through work. As soon as we identify ourselves with work we do, we feel miserable; but if we don’t identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.

Ø  Nature wants us to react, to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might, then it requires a super divine power not to hit back, to keep control, to be unattached.

Ø  Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master. Avoid this jealousy, and you will do great works that have yet to be done.

Ø  You must have an iron will if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.

Ø  Take up one idea, make that one idea your life, think of it, dream of it, live of it, let the brain,  muscle, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way great spiritual giants are produced, others are mere talking machines.

Ø  Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself.

( பி.கு.: தமிழில் கொடுக்காததால் மன்னிக்கவும். Something is better than nothing :-) )

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