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Renunciation & Purity
“This rascal ego must be obliterated.”
“What power is higher than the power of purity?”
“Brahmacharya should be like a burning fire within the veins!”
“Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.”
“Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.”
“The eternal law is self – sacrifice, not self – assertion.”
“No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.”
“Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.”
“The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.”
“Darkness and light, enjoyment of the world and enjoyment of God will never go together.”
“All truth in the universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure.”
“Back from the senses, back! Do not go to the senses is the watchword of Vairagya.”
“The chaste brain has tremendous energy and gigantic will-power. Without chastity there can be no spiritual strength.”
“There never was a person who found happiness in the senses or in enjoyment of the senses.”
“Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but by giving up alone that immortality is to be reached.”
“The highest ideal is eternal and entire self-abnegation, where there is no “I,” but all is “Thou”.”
“Without non-attachment there cannot be any kind of Yoga. Non-attachment is the basis of all the Yogas.”
“To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.”
“Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.”
“One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.”
“If working like slaves results in selfishness and attachment, working as master of our own mind gives rise to the bliss of non-attachment.”
“The more a man throws himself away, the more God comes in, hence self abnegation, which is the secret of all religion and morality.”
“Give up all ideas of enjoyment in this world and the next, care only for God and Truth. We are here to know truth, not for enjoyment.”
“The more we sink the 'little self', the more God comes. Let us get rid of the little 'I' and let only the great 'I' live in us.”
“The motive power of the whole universe, in whatever way it manifests itself, is that one wonderful thing, unselfishness, renunciation, love, the real, the only living force in existence.”
“Enjoyment should not be the goal.”
“Give up all "me and mine".”
“The highest ideal is always selfless.”
“Man cannot be satisfied by wealth.”
“We must get out of materialism.”
“Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.”