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Power and Repose: Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Speech at Chicago - Welcome Address

Ethics of resuscitate | Stamina of life

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 our weakness. with weakness come ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.

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Never be weak. You must be strong; you have infinite strength within you.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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It is very easy to say, "Hate nobody, resist not evil," but we know what that kind of thinking 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 hypocrisy and will serve no purpose.

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Strength is the medicine for the world's disease. Strength is the medicine which the poor must have when tyrannized over by the rick. Strength is the medicine that the ignorance must have when oppressed by the learned.

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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.

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Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every page. This is the one great thing to remember, it has been the one great lesson I have been taught in my life. Strength, it says, strength, O man, be not weak. Are there no human weaknesses? - says man. There are, say the Upanishads, but will more weakness heal them? Would you try to wash dirt with dirt? Will sin cure sin? Will weakness cure weakness? Strength, O man, strength, say the Upanishads, stand up and be strong.

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"Knowledge is power," says the proverb, does is not? It is through knowledge that power come. man has got to know that he is man of infinite power and strength. Really he himself is by his own nature potent and omniscient. And this he must know. And the more he becomes conscious of his own Self, the more he manifests this power, and his bonds break and at last he becomes free.

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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.

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You may pray to everyone that was ever born, but who will come to help you?... Help thyself out by thyself. None else can help thee, friend...Get hold of the Self, then. Stand up. Don't be afraid. In the midst of all miseries and all weakness, let the Self come out, faint and imperceptible though it be at first.

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You know in your inmost heart that many of your limited ideas, this humbling of yourself and praying and weeping to imaginary being are superstitions. Tell me one case where these prayers have been answered. All the answers that came were from you own hearts.

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Our power, and blessedness, and wisdom, cannot but grow into the Infinite. Infinite power and existence and blessedness are ours, and we have not to acquire them; they are our own, and we have only to manifest them.

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Man stands on the glory of his own soul, the infinite, the eternal, the deathless - that soul which no instruments can pierce, which no air can dry, nor fire can burn, no water can wet, the infinite, the birthless, the deathless, without beginning and without end, before whose glory space melts away into nothingness and time vanishes into non-existence. This glorious soul we must believe in. Out of that will come power.

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Believe, therefore, in yourselves, and if you want material wealth, work it out; it will come to you. If you want to be intellectual, work it out on the intellectual plan, and intellectual giants you shall be. And if you want to attain to freedom, work it out on the spiritual plane, and free you shall be and shall enter into Nirvana, the eternal Bliss.

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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 poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, 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.

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Truth, purity, and unselfishness - wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole Universe in opposition

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Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.

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Be a man first, my friend, and you will see how all those things (money, name, fame) and the rest will follow of themselves after you. Give up that hateful malice, that dog-like bickering and barking at one another, and take your stand on good purpose, right means, righteous courage, and be brave. When you are born a man, leave some indelible mark behind you.

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From all of you I want this that you must discard forever self-aggrandizement, faction-mongering, and jealousy. You must be all-forbearing, like Mother-Earth. If you can achieve this, the world will be at your feet.

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I am the child of the Divine Mother, the source of all power and strength...If Mother sends me men again in whose hearts there is courage, in whose hands strength, in whose eyes there is fire, real Children of Mother – if She gives me even one such, then I shall work again... I want to work at hurricane, and I want fearless hearts.

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If a man with an ideal makes a thousand mistakes, I am sure that the man without an ideal makes fifty thousand. Therefore, it is better to have an ideal.

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Education is not the amount of information that is put into the brain and runs riot there, undigested, all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library.

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.

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Work unto death – I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes – wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!

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My boy, when death is inevitable, is it not better to die like heroes than as stocks and stones? And what is the use of living a day or two more this transitory world? It is better to wear out than to rust our – specially for the sake of doing the least good to others.

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The histoy of the world is that of six men of faith, six men of deep, pure character. We need to have three things: the heart to feel, the brain to conceive, the hand to work. Make yourself a dynamo... If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man, are equal to the whole world.

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Can anything be done, unless everybody exerts himself to his utmost? “It is the man of action, the lion-heart, that the goddess of wealth resorts to.” No need of looking behind. FORWARD! We want infinite energy, infinite zeal, infinite courage, and infinite patience, then only will great things be achieved.

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Pray day and night, “ O Thou Mother of the Universe, vouchsafe manliness unto me! O Thou, Mother of Strength, take away my weakness, take away my unmanliness, and make me a Man!”

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The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my gospel.