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Saturday, December 22, 2007

From My Spiritual Diary-10:

* If you give up your small self for the sake of others, you will not only find your real self, but will make others also your own. – Swami Vrajananda

* Ups and downs, prosperity and adversity, elation and depression are natural to life. One of these conditions alone does not last for ever for anyone. These conditions alternate. A true devotee is one who utilizes both these phases of life – the favourable and the adverse – to enhance his spirit of resignation and discrimination. To become victims of absolute and uncontrolled elation or depression will mar our chances of spiritual progress. If our faith could sustain us through all these trials, we shall emerge stronger and wiser through them. (Swami Tapasyananda)

* Whining or self-pity is of no use at all. Can anything be done by such people? Strive hard, be wide awake and push on. Only then success will come.

* Get up, start walking and as you proceed, the road will grow shorter. Courage, hope, unexpected help will come. The path will gradually become easy and straight and in no time, you will reach the goal.

* Go on struggling ceaselessly. Fight like a hero! Never look back, but ever go forward. Onward to the goal! Pay not the slightest heed whether you be exhausted, mangled or mutilated on the way. Be fearless! Courage! Courage! Do not allow even the thought of defeat to enter your mind. Realization of the goal or let the body fall! – let this be your mantra. Victory or death! – let this be the stake. If you to die, die like a hero. (Swami Vivekananda)

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