If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
RamakrishnaRead
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
Interpretation
True freedom comes from within one's mind and self-perception.
The quote emphasizes that both bondage and freedom are mental states. It suggests that if an individual believes themselves to be free and recognizes their divine essence, they will experience true freedom, regardless of external circumstances or constraints.
In practice
In a speech about personal empowerment, you could use this quote to illustrate the power of mindset.
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
A man develops a subtle power as a result of the strict observance of celibacy for twelve years. Then he can understand and grasp very subtle things which otherwise elude his intellect. Through that understanding the aspirant can have direct vision of God. That pure understanding alone enables him to realize Truth.
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.
One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
...we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at exciting strife and tumults, so as to draw us away from what is good? Let us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace with godliness?
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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