• Condemn none; if you can stretch out a helping

hand, do so.
• No man should be judged by his defects.
• Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the
faults of others.
• This is the first lesson to learn: be determined
not to curse anything outside, not to lay blame
upon anyone outside, but be a man, stand up, lay
the blame on yourself. You will find that is
always true. Get hold of yourself.
• Do not go against anything-----------ours is to
put the chemicals together, the Lord knows how
and when the crystal will form.
• Do not disturb, but help everyone to get higher
and higher; include all humanity.
• Do not recognize wickedness in others.
Wickedness is ignorance, weakness. What is the
good of telling people they are weak? Criticism
and destruction are of no avail. We must give
them something higher; tell them of their own
glorious nature, their birthright.
• Never talk about the faults of others, no matter
how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by
that. You never help anyone by telling about his
faults, but you do him an injury, and injure
yourself as well.
• No one is to blame for our miseries but
ourselves.
• Every man must begin where he stands, must
learn how to control the things that are nearest to
him.
• Do not try to disturb the faith of any man. If you
can, give him something better; if you can, get
hold of a man where he stands and give him a
push upwards.
• Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the
world. When you find yourselves suffering,
blame yourselves, and try to do better.
• Man never progresses from error to truth, but
from truth to truth, from lesser truth to higher
truth------------ but it is never from error to truth.
• Therefore, if you have knowledge and see a man
weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and
help him if you can. He must grow.
• Bring in the light and the evil goes in a moment.
• It is gentleness that has the strength to live on
and to fructify and not mere brutality and
physical force.
• The evils that are in the world are caused by
none else but ourselves.
• Each is responsible for the evil anywhere in the
world.
• Evil exists, and there is no shirking the fact.
• In doing evil we injure ourselves and others also.
• He alone is a sinner who sees a sinner in
another man.
• How can we see evil unless it is in us?
• The Vedanta recognises no sin, it only recognises
error.
• This “me and mine” is the very root of all the
evil in the world.
• We ought not to hate anyone. This world will
always continue to be a mixture of good and evil.
Our duty is to sympathies with the weak and to
love even the wrongdoer. The world is a grand
moral gymnasium wherein we have all to take
exercise so as to become stronger and stronger
spiritually.
• 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.
• Say, ‘This misery that I am suffering is of my
own doing, and that very thing, proves that it
will have to be undone by me alone.’ That which
I created, I can demolish; that which is created
by someone else, I shall never be able to
destroy. Therefore, 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. All the strength and succor
you want is within yourselves.
• You must be perfectly pure. Do not think of
evil things, such thoughts will surely drag you
down.
• Bear all evil and misery without one murmur
of hurt, without one thought of unhappiness,
resistance, remedy, or retaliation.
• Give up all self, as egotism; get out of anger,
lust, give all to God. Blame none if evil comes.
• Bear with everyone’s shortcomings. Forgive
offences by the millions.
• The more opposition there is, the better. Does a
river acquire velocity unless there is resistance?
The newer and better a thing is the more
opposition it will meet with the onset. It is
opposition which foretells success.
• Good and evil are our slaves, not we theirs.
Children finding glass beads in a mud puddle,
that is the good of the world. Look at it with
calm complacency; see good and evil as the
same, both are merely ‘God’s play’; enjoy all.
• We must not look down with contempt on
others. All of us are going towards the same
goal. The difference between the weakness
and strength is one of degree; the difference
 between virtue and vice is one of degree; the
difference between heaven and hell is one of
degree; the difference between life and death
is one of degree; all difference in this world
are of degree, and not of kind, because
oneness is the secret of everything.
• Go on! Do not look back if you think you have
done something that is not right. Now, do you
believe you could be what you are today if you
had not made those mistakes before?.............
• Bless men, when they revile you. Think how
much good they are doing you; they can only
hurt themselves. Go where people hate you, let
them thrash the ego out of you and you will get
nearer to the Lord. Like the mother-monkey, we
hug our ‘baby’, the world, as long as we can, but
at last when we are driven to put it under our feet
and step on it then we are ready to come to God.
Blessed it is to be persecuted for the sake of
righteousness.
• The perfect life would be a wonderful harmony
between doing and suffering.
• Do not fight with people; do not antagonize
anyone.
• Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune
smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today
or after a yuga, see that you do not deviate
 from the path of truth. How much of tempests
and waves one had to weather, before one
reaches the heaven of peace. The greater a man
has become, the firer ordeal he has had to pass
through.
• Live in harmony with all. Give up all idea of
egoism, and entertain no sectarian views.
Useless wrangling is a great sin.
• Let there be action without reaction.
• There is neither sin nor virtue; there is only
ignorance.
• The power of suffering is infinitely
greater than the power of doing; the
power of love is infinitely of greater
potency than the power of hatred.
• Each work has to pass through these
stages---------------ridicule, opposition, and then
acceptance. Each man who thinks ahead of his
time is sure to be misunderstood.
• Man never progresses from error to truth, but
from truth to truth, from lesser truth to higher
truth---------------but it is never from error to
truth.
• Resist not evil. Face it! You are higher than
evil.
• There is no happiness higher than what a man
obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to
all creation.
• Hate not the most abject sinner, look not to his
exterior.
• Go on loving. If a man is angry, there is no
reason why you should be angry; if he degrades
himself, that is no reason why you should
degrade yourself.
• Analyse yourselves and you will find that every
blow you have received, came to you because
you prepared yourselves for it.
• Bear with the various opinions of everybody.
Patience, purity, and perseverance will
prevail.
• Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from
truth to truth, from lower to higher truth.
• Will sin cure sin, weakness cure weakness?
• Darkness is less light; evil is less good; impurity
is less purity.
• When God and good and everything else is
in us, there is no evil.
• The cause of evil is our desire to be superior
to others and our selfishness. The moment
that the world becomes unselfish all evil
will vanish. So long as society tries to cure
evil by laws and institutions, evil will not
 be cured. The world has tried this method
ineffectually for thousands of years.

The Only Cure for Evil

Force against force never cures, and the only cure for evil is
unselfishness.
• It is easy to strike a blow, but tremendously
hard to stay the hand.
• I can not see evil unless I be evil.
• Force against force never cures, and the only
cure of evil is unselfishness.
• The chief cause of all evil
Know partiality to be the chief cause of all
evil.
• Jealousy is the root of all evil, and a most
difficult thing to conquer.
• How Evil is destroyed…………….
We must try our best to destroy ignorance and evil; only
we have to learn that evil is destroyed by the growth of
good.
• Life is full of ills, the world is full of evils.
• Be bold, face facts as facts. Do not be
chased about the universe by evil. Evils are
evils. What of that?
• The real evil is idleness, which is the
principal cause of our poverty.
• A person living in society, specially as a
house holder, should make a show of the
 spirit of resisting evil for purpose of self-
defence, but at the same time trying to avoid
paying back evil for evil.
• It is a change of the soul itself for the better
that alone will cure the evils of life.
• All evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying
upon differences.
• It is only selfishness that causes the difference
between good and evil.
• Beget no evil.
• Deny evil, create none.
• All the evil acts must produce their results
also.
• Therefore, the only thing we can do is to
understand that all this work against evil is
more subjective than objective. The work
against evil is more educational than actual,
however big we may talk. This, first of all, is
the idea of work against evil; and it ought to
make us calmer; it ought to take fanaticism
out of our blood.
• Resist not evil. Face it! You are higher than
evil.
• Blows are what awaken us and help to break
the dream. They show us the insufficiency
of this world and make us long to escape, to
have freedom.
• Don’t be ruffled if now and then you get a
brush from the world; it will be over in no
time, and everything will be all right.
• Don’t enter into wrangles with
anybody---------------always maintain a calm
attitude.
• Useless wrangling is a great sin.
• Use agreeable and wholesome language
towards even the greatest enemy.
• Go on doing good, thinking holy thoughts
continuously, that is the only way to suppress
base impressions. Never say any man is
hopeless, because he only represents a character,
a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new
and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and
repeated habits alone can reform character……
……….The chaste brain has tremendous energy
and gigantic will power.
• Each human being stands for the divine.
• Goodness is our nature, perfection is our nature,
not imperfection, not impurity.
• Only cowards sin, brave men never; no, not
even in mind.
• If your freedom hurts others, you are not
free there; you must not hurt others.
• What you have inside you is that you see in
others.
• Refer UNSELFISHNESS; LOVE LOVE
LOVE; THINKING; LOVE;
• Within every man, there is an idea; the external
man, is only the outward manifestation, the mere
language of this idea within.
• The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the
greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had
been more extensively taught and practiced,
I am sure a very large portion of the evils
and miseries that we have would have
vanished.
• The miseries of the world cannot be cured by
physical help only. Until man’s nature changes,
these physical needs will always arise, and
miseries will always be felt, and no amount of
physical help will cure them completely. The
only solution of this problem is to make
mankind pure. Ignorance is the mother of all
the evil and all the misery we see. Let men
have light, let them be pure and spiritually
strong and educated, then alone will misery
cease in the world, not before.
• Misery is caused by sin, and by no other
cause.
• Inactivity should be avoided by all means.
Activity always means resistance. Resist all
evils, mental and physical; and when you have
succeeded in resisting, then will calmness come.
• If you know that you are positively other than
your body, you have then none to fight with or
struggle against; you are dead to all ideas of
selfishness.
• We get only what we deserve.
• Know that talking ill of others in private is a sin.
You must wholly avoid it. Many things may
occur to the mind, but it gradually makes a
mountain of a mole-hill, if you try to express
them. Everything ends, if you forgive and
forget.
• Never think there is anything impossible for
the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so.
If there is any sin, this is the only
sin----------------------to say that you are
weak, or others are weak.
• From all of you I want this that you must discard
for ever self-aggrandisement, faction-mongering,
and jealousy. You must be all-forbearing like
Mother Earth. If you can achieve this, the
world will be at your feet.
• You gain nothing by becoming cowards.
• Become a True Optimist
Control Everything
Vedanta philosophy……………takes things as
they are. It admits that this world is a mixture of
good and evil, happiness and misery, and that to
increase the one, must necessity increase the
other. There will never be a perfectly good or bad
world, because the very idea is a contradiction in
terms………….It does not say that this world is all
evil or all good. It says that our evil is of no less
value than our good, and our good of no more
value than our evil. They are bound together……
………but beyond and behind all these
manifestations, the Vedanta finds out that Unity. It
says, “Give up what is evil and give up what is
good”. What remains then? Behind good and evil
stands something which is yours, the real you……
………and it is that which is manifesting itself
as good and bad. Know that first, and then and
then alone you will be true optimist, and not
before; for then you will be able to control
everything. Control these manifestations and you
will be at liberty to manifest the real “you”. First be
master of yourself.
• Stand upon the Self, then only can we truly love
the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing
our universal nature, we must look with perfect
calmness upon all the panorama of the world. It
is but baby’s play, and we know that, so cannot
be disturbed by it. If the mind is pleased with
praise, it will be displeased with blame. All
pleasures of the senses or even of the mind are
evanescent, but within ourselves is the one true
 unrelated pleasure, dependent upon nothing. It
is perfectly free, it is bliss. The more our bliss is
within, the more spiritual we are. The pleasure
of the Self is what the world calls religion.
• Hold yourself as a witness and go on working.
• Never tell yourselves or others that you are
weak.
• We are bound by the senses; they play upon us,
make fools of us all the time.
• Control your senses.
• Know that all sins and all evils can be
summed up in that one word----------
weakness. It is weakness that is the motive
power in all evil-doing. It is weakness that
is the source of all selfishness. It is
weakness that makes men injure others.
It is weakness that makes them manifest
what they are not in reality.
• Ignorance is the cause of which sin is the
result.
• We are to be saved from sin by being saved
from ignorance.
• This world is neither good nor evil; each man
manufactures a world for himself.
• Guess against guess makes fight.
• The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.
• Serve diabolical.
• The great error in all ethical systems,
without exception, has been the failure of
teaching the means by which man could
refrain from doing evil. All the systems of
ethics teach, "Do not steal!" Very good; but
why does a man steal? Because all stealing,
robbing, and other evil actions, as a rule,
have become automatic. The systematic
robber, thief, liar, unjust man and woman,
are all these in spite of themselves! It is
really a tremendous psychological problem.
We should look upon man in the most
charitable light. It is not so easy to be good.
What are you but mere machines until you
are free? Should you be proud because you
are good? Certainly not. You are good
because you cannot help it. Another is bad
because he cannot help it. If you were in his
position, who knows what you would have
been? The woman in the street, or the thief
in the jail, is the Christ that is being
sacrificed that you may be a good man. Such
is the law of balance. All the thieves and the
murderers, all the unjust, the weakest, the
wickedest, the devils, they all are my Christ!
I owe a worship to the God Christ and to the
demon Christ! That is my doctrine, I cannot
help it. My salutation goes to the feet of the
 good, the saintly, and to the feet of the
wicked and the devilish! They are all my
teachers, all are my spiritual fathers, all are
my Saviours. I may curse one and yet
benefit by his failings; I may bless another
and benefit by his good deeds. This is as true
as that I stand here. I have to sneer at the
woman walking in the street, because
society wants it! She, my Saviour, she,
whose street-walking is the cause of the
chastity of other women! Think of that.
Think, men and women, of this question in
your mind. It is a truth — a bare, bold truth!
As I see more of the world, see more of men
and women, this conviction grows stronger.
Whom shall I blame? Whom shall I praise?
Both sides of the shield must be seen.

The task before us is vast; and first and

foremost, we must seek to control the vast
mass of sunken thoughts which have become
automatic with us. The evil deed is, no doubt,
on the conscious plane; but the cause which
produced the evil deed was far beyond in the
realms of the unconscious, unseen, and
therefore more potent.
Practical psychology directs first of all its
energies in controlling the unconscious, and
we know that we can do it. Why? Because we
know the cause of the unconscious is the
conscious; the unconscious thoughts are the
submerged millions of our old conscious
thoughts, old conscious actions become
petrified — we do not look at them, do not
know them, have forgotten them. But mind
you, if the power of evil is in the unconscious,
so also is the power of good. We have many
things stored in us as in a pocket. We have
forgotten them, do not even think of them, and
there are many of them, rotting, becoming
positively dangerous; they come forth, the
unconscious causes which kill humanity. True
psychology would, therefore, try to bring them
under the control of the conscious. The great
task is to revive the whole man, as it were, in
order to make him the complete master of
himself. Even what we call the automatic
action of the organs within our bodies, such as
the liver etc., can be made to obey our
commands.
• Love alone is the fittest thing to survive
and not hatred.
• Everything works for the best.
• If there is any sin in the world, it is
weakness.
• The god in you is the god in all. If you have
not known this, you have known nothing. How
can there be difference? It is all one. Every
being is the temple of the most high; if you can
see that, good, if not, spirituality has yet to
come to you.
• TALK NOT ABOUT IMPURITY, BUT SAY
THAT WE ARE PURE.
• We must go out, we must conquer the world
through our spirituality and philosophy. There
is no other alternative, we must do it or die.
• The seeing of many is the greatest sin of all
the world. See all as self and love all; let all
idea of separateness go.
• If your ideal is matter, matter shalt thou be.
Behold! Our ideal is the spirit. That alone
exists. Nothing else exists, and like Him we
live for ever.
• If you project hatred and jealousy they
will rebound on you with compound
interest. No power can avert them;
when once you have put them in
motion, you will have to bear them.
Remembering this will prevent you
from doing wicked things.
• If anybody comes to you for vain
dispute, politely withdraw yourself. You
must express your sympathy with people
of all sects. When these cardinal virtues
will be manifested in you, then only you
will be able to work with great energy.
• If we are pure, we cannot see impurity.
• Say, “I am the Spirit! Nothing external can
touch me”. When evil thoughts arise, repeat
that, give that sledge-hammer blow on their
heads, “I am the Spirit! I am the Witness, the
Ever-Blessed! I have no reason to do, no
reason to suffer, I have finished with
everything, I am the witness. I am in my
picture gallery---------this universe is my
museum, I am looking at these successive
paintings. They are all beautiful. Whether
good or evil. I see the marvelous skill, but it is
all one. Infinite flames of the great Painter!
”
• BEAR ALL EVIL AND MISERY WITHOUT ONE
MURMUR OF HURT, WITHOUT ONE THOUGHT OF
UNHAPPINESS, RESISTANCE, REMEDY, OR
RETALIATION.
• MEN ARE MORE VALUABLE THAN ALL
THE WEALTH OF THE WORLD.
• There is no difference between the secular and
the spiritual. EACH ONE IS MOVING
 TOWARDS FREEDOM. Each action is a
step towards the absolute.
• Spirit alone exists. Nothing else exists.
• …………….for weakness is sin.
• We must have friendship for all; we must
be merciful toward those that are in
misery; when people are happy, we ought
to be happy; and to the wicked we must be
indifferent. These attitudes will make the
mind peaceful.
• “Face the brutes.” That is a lesson for all
life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like
the monkeys, the hardships of life fall
back when we cease to flee before them.
• Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean,
to go beyond all the trifles of the world
and see it only as a picture. We can then
enjoy the world without being in any way
affected by it.
• The more we grow in love and virtue and
holiness, the more we see love and virtue
and holiness outside. All condemnation of
others really condemns ourselves. Adjust
the microcosm (which is in your power to
do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself
for you.
 • It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what
it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our
thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own
minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First,
believe in this world --------------- that there is meaning
behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is
holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that
you are not understanding it in the right light. Throw the
burden on yourselves!
• THE WHOLE OF LIFE IS ONLY A SWAN SONG!
NEVER FORGET THOSE LINES:

The lion, when stricken to the heart,

gives out his mightiest roar.

When smitten on the head, the cobra lifts its hood.

And the majesty of the soul comes forth,

only when a man is wounded to his depths.

• If we enjoy everything in the Self, and as the

Self, no misery or reaction will come.
• Seeing difference is the cause of all misery,
and ignorance is the cause of seeing
difference.
• Never mind failures; they are quite
natural, they are the beauty of life---------
these failures. What would life be without
them? It would not be worth having if it
were not for struggles. Where would be the
poetry of life? Never mind the struggles,
 the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie,
but it is only a cow---------never a man. So
never mind these failures, these little
backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand
times; and if you fail a thousand times, make
the attempt once more.
• Those that want to help mankind must take their own
pleasure and pain, name and fame, and all sorts of
interests, and make a bundle of them and throw them
into the sea, and then come to the Lord. This is what all
the Master said and did.
• The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.
• Think always, “I am ever-pure, ever-knowing, and ever-
free. How I can do anything evil? Can I ever be fooled
like ordinary people with the insignificant charms of
lust and wealth?” Strengthen the mind with such
thoughts. This will surely bring real good.
• Do not be miserable! Do not repent! What is done is
done.
• This world for me, not I for the world. Good and evil are
our slaves, not we theirs. It is the nature of the brute to
remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to
seek good and avoid bad; it is the nature of God to seek
neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be gods! Make
the heart like an ocean; go beyond all the trifles of the
world; be mad with joy even at evil, see the world as a
picture and then enjoy its beauty, knowing that nothing
affects you. Children finding glass beads in a mud puddle,
that is the good of the world. Look at it with calm
complacency; see good and evil as the same, both are
merely ‘God’s play’; enjoy all.
• Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we
get them. As long as the message is regarding our own
 selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in
regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think
a hundred times before you act upon it—and then you
will be safe.
• None can hate others without degenerating himself.
• Do not repent, do not brood over past deeds. You can
not undo, the effect must come, face it; but be careful
never to do the same thing again.
• We Vedantists in every difficulty ought to ask the
subjective questions, ‘Why do I see that? Why can I
not conquer this with love?’
• It is very easy to search for faults, but the characteristic
of a saint lies in looking for merits.
• Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the
faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.
• We cannot see impurity without having it inside
ourselves.
• Live in harmony with all. Give up all idea of
egoism, and entertain no sectarian views.
Useless wrangling is a great sin.
• Let men have light, let them be pure and
spiritually strong and educated, then alone will
misery cease in the world, not before.
• Knowing that the Love is everywhere, the sages give up
praising and blaming.
• Do not drag others down to where you are.
• Remove the veils of ignorance by purity, then we
manifest ourselves as we really are and know that we
were never in bondage.
•
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Modified
• Never talk about the faults of others, no matter
how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by
that. You never help anyone by telling about his
faults, but you do him an injury, and injure
yourself as well.
• The more opposition there is, the better. Does a
river acquire velocity unless there is resistance?
The newer and better a thing is the more
 opposition it will meet with the onset. It is
opposition which foretells success.
• This is the first lesson to learn: be determined
not to curse anything outside, not to lay blame
upon anyone outside, but be a man, stand up, lay
the blame on yourself. You will find that is
always true. Get hold of yourself.
• Do not go against anything-----------ours is to
put the chemicals together, the Lord knows how
and when the crystal will form.
• Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the
faults of others.
• It is that eternal love, unruffled equanimity under
all circumstances, and perfect freedom from
jealousy or animosity that will tell. That will
tell, nothing else.
• Avoid jealousy and selfishness.
• Be jealous of none.
• Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and
egotism, once for all.
• Take care of these two things---------------love of
power and jealousy.
• One must be a servant of servants and must
accommodate a thousand minds. There must not
be a shade of jealousy or selfishness, then you
are a leader.
• This rascal ego must be obliterated. Powers to
help mankind is with the silent ones who only
live and love and withdraw their own personality
entirely.
• Know that talking ill of others in private is a sin.
You must wholly avoid it. Many things may
occur to the mind, but it gradually makes a
mountain of a mole-hill, if you try to express
them. Everything ends, if you forgive and
forget.
• How Evil is destroyed…………….
We must try our best to destroy ignorance and evil; only
we have to learn that evil is destroyed by the growth of
good.
• The chief cause of all evil
Know partiality to be the chief cause of all
evil.
•