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October 14: Never Mind Success or Failure
Work for work’s sake. Your whole mind should be fixed upon the work. Let that be your ideal, the be-all and end-all of life. Never mind success or failure. (p.144, Spiritual Talks, Swami …
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October 13: Desire Blocks the Way
It is all Mother…. All men are good. Only we cannot reach all…. I am never going to teach anymore. Who am I that I should teach anyone? (p.3-4, Vol.5, New Discoveries, Sister Nivedita describing …
October 11: Work in the Right Spirit
Who says that spiritual practice produces no effect? Surely it does. There is not a shade of doubt about it. People of the world give you wages, if you work for them. Is God so unkind that He will not …
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October 11: “I Have Never Retreated in a Fight”
What will you achieve by mere reasoning? Be restless for God and learn to love Him. Reason, mere intellectual knowledge, is like a man who can go only as far as the outer court of the house. But …
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Chandogya Upanishad 5.10.10
अथ ह य एतानेवं पञ्चाग्नीन्वेद न सह तैरप्याचरन्पाप्मना लिप्यते शुद्धः पूतः पुण्यलोको भवति य एवं वेद य एवं वेद ॥ ५.१०.१० ॥॥ इति दशमः खण्डः ॥ atha ha ya etānevaṃ pañcāgnīnveda na saha …