Gospel of Strength
Stop Becoming Weak!
Strength, strength, it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is out weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.
Never be weak. You must be strong; you have infinite strength within you.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin--to say that you are weak
The only saint is that soul that never weakens and faces everything.
All weakness, all bondage is imagination... Do not weaken!... Stand up and be strong! That is all the religion I know.
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
Strength, strength, it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is out weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.
Never be weak. You must be strong; you have infinite strength within you.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin--to say that you are weak
The only saint is that soul that never weakens and faces everything.
All weakness, all bondage is imagination... Do not weaken!... Stand up and be strong! That is all the religion I know.
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
The weak have no place here, in this life or in any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death. There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened.This is the great fact: strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery; weakness is death
You must retain great strength in your mind and words. "I am low, I am low"--repeating these ideas in the mind, man belittles and degrades himself.
Sin may be said to be the feeling of every kind of weakness. From this weakness spring jealousy, malice, and so forth. Hence weakness is sin.
What we want is strength, so believe in yourselves... Make your nerves strong. What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your own feet and be men
You must retain great strength in your mind and words. "I am low, I am low"--repeating these ideas in the mind, man belittles and degrades himself.
Sin may be said to be the feeling of every kind of weakness. From this weakness spring jealousy, malice, and so forth. Hence weakness is sin.
What we want is strength, so believe in yourselves... Make your nerves strong. What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your own feet and be men
What is sin and what is misery, and what are all these, but the results of weakness?... Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation. Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into their brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.
First build up your physique. Then only you can get control over the mind.
Never can hatred and malice vanish from one's heart unless one becomes a hero.
It is very easy to say, "Hate nobody, resist not evil," but we know what that kind of thing generally means in practice. When the eyes of society are turned towards us, we may make a show of non-resistance, but in our hearts it is canker all the time.. This is hypocrisy and will serve no purpose.
This is the one question I put to every man, woman, or child, when they are in physical, mental, or spiritual training. Are you strong? Do you feel strength? - for I know it is strength alone that leads to truth.
Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady intellect...: Never allow weakness to overtake your mind.
Strength is the medicine for the world's disease. Strength is the medicine which the poor must have when tyrannised over by the rich. Strength is the medicine that the ignorant must have when oppressed by the learned.
First build up your physique. Then only you can get control over the mind.
Never can hatred and malice vanish from one's heart unless one becomes a hero.
It is very easy to say, "Hate nobody, resist not evil," but we know what that kind of thing generally means in practice. When the eyes of society are turned towards us, we may make a show of non-resistance, but in our hearts it is canker all the time.. This is hypocrisy and will serve no purpose.
This is the one question I put to every man, woman, or child, when they are in physical, mental, or spiritual training. Are you strong? Do you feel strength? - for I know it is strength alone that leads to truth.
Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady intellect...: Never allow weakness to overtake your mind.
Strength is the medicine for the world's disease. Strength is the medicine which the poor must have when tyrannised over by the rich. Strength is the medicine that the ignorant must have when oppressed by the learned.
Non-injury is right; "resist not evil" is a great thing--these are indeed grand principles; but the scriptures say, "... if anyone smites you on your cheek, and you do not return him an eye for eye, a tooth for a tooth, you will verily be a sinner."
This is very true, and this is a thing which should not be forgotten. Heroes alone enjoy the world. Show your heroism... Otherwise, you live a disgraceful life if you pocket your insults when you are kicked and trodden down by anyone who takes it into his head to do so; your life is a veritable hell here, and so is the life hereafter. This is my advice to you... Of course do not do any wrong, do not injure or tyrannise over anyone, but try to do good to others as much as you can. But passively to submit to wrong done by others is a sin... Try to pay them back in their own coin then and there. If you cannot do that, how do you profess to be a man?
First you have to build the body by good nutritious food -- then only will the mind be strong. The mind is but the subtle part of the body.
The only test of good things is that they make us strong.
As soon as you say,"I am a little mortal being," you are saying something which is not true, you are giving the lie to yourselves, you are hypnotising yourselves into something vile and weak and wretched
The infinite strength of the world is yours. Drive out the superstition that has covered your minds. Let us be brave.
By degrees the heart has to be strengthened. If one man is made, it equals the result of a thousand lectures.
Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be; if you think yourselves impure, impure you will be; if you think yourselves pure, pure you will be. This teaches us not to think ourselves as weak, but as strong, omnipotent, omniscient.
This is very true, and this is a thing which should not be forgotten. Heroes alone enjoy the world. Show your heroism... Otherwise, you live a disgraceful life if you pocket your insults when you are kicked and trodden down by anyone who takes it into his head to do so; your life is a veritable hell here, and so is the life hereafter. This is my advice to you... Of course do not do any wrong, do not injure or tyrannise over anyone, but try to do good to others as much as you can. But passively to submit to wrong done by others is a sin... Try to pay them back in their own coin then and there. If you cannot do that, how do you profess to be a man?
First you have to build the body by good nutritious food -- then only will the mind be strong. The mind is but the subtle part of the body.
The only test of good things is that they make us strong.
As soon as you say,"I am a little mortal being," you are saying something which is not true, you are giving the lie to yourselves, you are hypnotising yourselves into something vile and weak and wretched
The infinite strength of the world is yours. Drive out the superstition that has covered your minds. Let us be brave.
By degrees the heart has to be strengthened. If one man is made, it equals the result of a thousand lectures.
Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be; if you think yourselves impure, impure you will be; if you think yourselves pure, pure you will be. This teaches us not to think ourselves as weak, but as strong, omnipotent, omniscient.
Know that every thought and word that weakens you in the world is the only evil that exists. Whatever makes man weak and fear is the only evil that should be shunned.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
I beg you to understand this one fact - no good comes out of the man who day and night thinks he is nobody. If a man day and night thinks he is miserable low and nothing, nothing he becomes... That is the great fact which you ought to remember
Being reminded of weakness does not help much; give strength, and strength does not come by thinking of weakness all the time.The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
If you tell a man, "You are low, you are vile." in season and out of season, then he is bound to believe in course of time that he is really such. This is called hypnotism.
To call another a sinner is the worst thing you can do.
Everybody is hypnotised already. The work of attaining freedom, of realising one's real nature, consists in de-hypnotisation.
Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; you are not matter, you are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter.
"Children of immortal bliss" - what a sweet, what a hopeful name! Allow me to call you, brethren, by that sweet name - beings of immortal bliss... You are the children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth - sinners! It is sin to call a man so; it is a standing libel on human nature.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
I beg you to understand this one fact - no good comes out of the man who day and night thinks he is nobody. If a man day and night thinks he is miserable low and nothing, nothing he becomes... That is the great fact which you ought to remember
Being reminded of weakness does not help much; give strength, and strength does not come by thinking of weakness all the time.The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
If you tell a man, "You are low, you are vile." in season and out of season, then he is bound to believe in course of time that he is really such. This is called hypnotism.
To call another a sinner is the worst thing you can do.
Everybody is hypnotised already. The work of attaining freedom, of realising one's real nature, consists in de-hypnotisation.
Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; you are not matter, you are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter.
"Children of immortal bliss" - what a sweet, what a hopeful name! Allow me to call you, brethren, by that sweet name - beings of immortal bliss... You are the children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth - sinners! It is sin to call a man so; it is a standing libel on human nature.
The more I live, the more I become convinced everyday that every human being is dinine. In no man or woman, however vile, does that divinity die.
Studying the external alone, man begins to feel himself to be nothing. These vast powers of nature, these tremendous changes occurring - whole communities wiped off the face of the earth in a twinkling of time, one volcanic eruption shattering to pieces whole continents - perceiving and studying these things, man begins to feel himself weak. Therefore it is not the study of external nature that makes one strong. But there is the internal nature of man - a million times more powerful than any volcanic eruption or any law of nature - which conquers nature, triumphs over all its laws. And that alone teaches man what he is.
One stumbles more than another, and him who stumbles more we call bad, him who stumbles less we call good... The difference is not one of kind, but of degree.
In spite of the greatness of the Upanishads, in spite of our boasted ancestry of sages, compared to many other races, I must tell you that we are weak, very weak. First of all is our physical weakness. That physical weakness is the cause of at least one-third of our miseries.
Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist has known all that is in man? Millions of years have passed since man first came here, and yet but one infinitesimal part of his powers has been manifested. Therefore, you must not say that you are weak. How do you know what possiblities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.
Studying the external alone, man begins to feel himself to be nothing. These vast powers of nature, these tremendous changes occurring - whole communities wiped off the face of the earth in a twinkling of time, one volcanic eruption shattering to pieces whole continents - perceiving and studying these things, man begins to feel himself weak. Therefore it is not the study of external nature that makes one strong. But there is the internal nature of man - a million times more powerful than any volcanic eruption or any law of nature - which conquers nature, triumphs over all its laws. And that alone teaches man what he is.
One stumbles more than another, and him who stumbles more we call bad, him who stumbles less we call good... The difference is not one of kind, but of degree.
In spite of the greatness of the Upanishads, in spite of our boasted ancestry of sages, compared to many other races, I must tell you that we are weak, very weak. First of all is our physical weakness. That physical weakness is the cause of at least one-third of our miseries.
Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist has known all that is in man? Millions of years have passed since man first came here, and yet but one infinitesimal part of his powers has been manifested. Therefore, you must not say that you are weak. How do you know what possiblities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.
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