22-March-2020 (Sunday)

Gems of Holy Trio – 174

Anger and lust cannot be destroyed. Turn them toward God.

Kam, Krodh Aadi Jabar Noy; Ishwar-er Dike Mor Phiriye Dao.

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna – P. 162

 

If a meditative mood sets in well and good. If not, don't force your mind to meditate.

The Gospel of The Holy Mother – P. 213

 

MY PLAN OF CAMPAIGN (Delivered at the Victoria Hall, Madras) – 14

Therefore I cannot join any one of these condemning societies. Why condemn? There are evils in every society; everybody knows it. Every child of today knows it; he can stand upon a platform and give us a harangue on the awful evils in Hindu Society. Every uneducated foreigner who comes here globe-trotting takes a vanishing railway view of India and lectures most learnedly on the awful evils in India. We admit that there are evils. Everybody can show what evil is, but he is the friend of mankind who finds a way out of the difficulty. Like the drowning boy and the philosopher — when the philosopher was lecturing him, the boy cried, "Take me out of the water first" — so our people cry: "We have had lectures enough, societies enough, papers enough; where is the man who will lend us a hand to drag us out? Where is the man who really loves us? Where is the man who has sympathy for us?" Ay, that man is wanted.

Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda – Vol. III P. 215

 

"Sir, I have a question to ask. Is it good to sacrifice animals before the Deity? It certainly involves killing."

Sri Ramakrishna: "The sastra prescribes sacrifice on special occasions. Such sacrifice is not harmful. Take, for instance, the sacrifice of a goat on the eighth day of the full or new moon."

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna – P. 185