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Truth & Religion
“Realisation is the soul, the very essence of religion.”
“Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.”
“Not talking, theorising, argumentation, but realisation. That I call practical religion.”
“Religion without philosophy runs into superstition; philosophy without religion becomes dry atheism.”
“Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.”
“Religion is the idea which is raising the brute unto man; and man unto God.”
“Religion is not in doctrines, in dogmas, nor in intellectual argumentation; it is being and becoming, it is realisation.”
“Root up priestcraft from the old religion, and you get the best religion in the world. Do you understand me?”
“Thou hast the right to work but not to the fruits thereof. Stand firm like a rock. Truth always triumphs.”
“The Vedanta is the rationale of all religions. Without the Vedanta every religion is superstition; with it everything becomes religion.”
“The greatest name man ever gave to God is Truth. Truth is the fruit of realisation; therefore seek it within the soul.”
“Religion is not in books, nor in theories, nor in dogmas, nor in talking, not even in reasoning. It is being and becoming.”
“Divine wisdom is to be got by devotion, meditation, and chastity. 'Truth alone triumphs, and not untruth. Through truth alone the way is spread to Brahman.'”
“All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.”
“I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.”
“As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.”
“This very world is seen by the five senses as matter, by the very wicked as hell, by the good as heaven, and by the perfect as God.”
“Not politics nor military power, not commercial supremacy nor mechanical genius furnishes India with that backbone, but religion; and religion alone is all that we have and mean to have.”
“The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness”
“The Absolute Truth is God alone.”
“Truth is heaven. Bigotry is hell.”
“A changeable God would be no God.”
“God is true, all else is nothing.”
“Priestcraft and tyranny go hand in hand.”
“No two persons have the same religion.”
“The road to salvation is through truth.”
“It is truth alone that gives strength.”
“Truth alone triumphs, and this is true.”
“In this world nothing is permanent except God.”
“Life is not real. The real is God.”
“Acceptance, love, toleration for everything sincere and honest.”