Think all of you that you are the infinitely powerful Atman, and see what strength comes out.
Letter to his brother-disciples. Written in Bengali from New York on September 25, 1894. Complete Works, 6.276.
A bit of Mother, a drop, was Krishna, another was Buddha, another was Christ. The worship of even one spark of Mother in our earthly mother leads to greatness. Worship the Divine Mother if you want love and wisdom.
Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 30, 1895. Complete Works, 7.27.
Of what use is self-depreciation? I am the child of the Infinite, the all-powerful Divine Mother. What is disease or fear or want to me? Stamp out the negative spirit as if it were a pestilence, and it will conduce to your welfare in every way.
Letter to his brother-disciples. Written in Bengali from New York on September 25, 1894. Complete Works, 6.276.
God is still, established upon his own majestic changeless Self. You and I try to be one with him, but we plant ourselves upon nature, upon the trifles of daily life, on money, on fame, on human love, and all these changing forms in nature which make for bondage.
From a lecture on "What Is Religion?". Complete Works, 1.337
None of us has understood Sri Ramakrishna fully. So I do not venture to speak about him anywhere and everywhere. Only he knows what he himself really was. Only his frame was human, but everything else about him was entirely different from others.
Conversations recorded in Bengali. From the diary of Sarat Chandra Chakravarty. Complete Works, 5.389.
Many religious theories are based on belief. One man says there is a great Being sitting above the clouds and governing the whole universe, and he asks me to believe that solely on the authority of his assertion. In the same way, I may have my own ideas, which I am asking others to believe, and if they ask a reason, I cannot give them any. This is why religion and metaphysical philosophy have a bad name these days. Every educated person seems to say, "Oh, these religions are only bundles of theories without any standard to judge them by, all preaching their own pet ideas."
Nevertheless, there is a basis of universal belief in religion, governing all the different theories and all the varying ideas of different sects in different countries. Going to their basis we find that they also are based upon universal experiences.
From Swamiji's book "Raja Yoga," Chapter One, "Introductory." Complete Works, 1.125-26.
Be not negative. You must be all-positive, affirmative. Say, "I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want."
Letter to his brother-disciples. Written in Bengali from New York on September 25, 1894. Complete Works, 6.276.
When nature shines, upon what depends its shining? Upon God and not upon the sun, nor the moon, nor the stars. Wherever anything shines, whether it is the light in the sun or in our own consciousness, it is God. He shining, all shines after him.
From a lecture on "What Is Religion?". Complete Works, 1.337. Here Swamiji is paraphrasing from the Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.15 and the Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 2.2.10.
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