5. TEST OF TRUTH
12. Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one
can be true.
16. Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to
weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and
sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
17. There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the
creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built a
cocoon around yourself…. Burst your own cocoon and come
out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you
will see Truth.
18. Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve
success in it but through their absorption in that they also
realize the supreme truth—Brahman. Those who work at a
thing with their whole heart receive help from God.
19. Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern.
Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.
20. I have read what you say about the Indian papers and their
criticisms, which are natural. Jealousy is the central vice of every
enslaved race. And it is jealousy and want of combination which
cause and perpetuate slavery. You cannot feel the truth of this remark
until you come out of India. The secret of Westerners' success is this
power of combination, the basis of which is mutual trust and
appreciation. The weaker and more cowardly a nation is, so much
the more is this sin visible. . . . But, my son, you ought not to expect
anything from a slavish race. The case is almost desperate no doubt,
but let me put the case before you all. Can you put life into this dead
mass — dead to almost all moral aspiration, dead to all future
possibilities — and always ready to spring upon those that would try
to do good to them? Can you take the position of a physician who
tries to pour medicine down the throat of a kicking and refractory
child? . . . An American or a European always supports his
countrymen in a foreign country. . . . Let me remind you again,
"Thou hast the right to work but not to the fruits thereof." Stand firm
like a rock. Truth always triumphs. Let the children of Shri
Ramakrishna be true to themselves and everything will be all right.
We may not live to see the outcome, but as sure as we live, it will
come sooner or later. What India wants is a new electric fire to stir
up a fresh vigour in the national veins. This was ever, and always
will be, slow work. Be content to work, and, above all, be true to
yourself. Be pure, staunch, and sincere to the very backbone, and
everything will be all right. If you have marked anything in the
disciples of Shri Ramakrishna, it is this — they are sincere to the
backbone. My task will be done, and I shall be quite content to die, if
I can bring up and launch one hundred such men over India. He, the
Lord, knows best. Let ignorant men talk nonsense. We neither seek
aid nor avoid it — we are the servants of the Most High. The petty
attempts of small men should be beneath our notice. Onward! Upon
ages of struggle a character is built. Be not discouraged. One word
of truth can never be lost; for ages it may be hidden under rubbish,
but it will show itself sooner or later. Truth is indestructible, virtue is
indestructible, purity is indestructible. Give me a genuine man; I do
not want masses of converts. My son, hold fast! Do not care for
anybody to help you. Is not the Lord infinitely greater than all
human help? Be holy — trust in the Lord, depend on Him always,
and you are on the right track; nothing can prevail against you. . . .
23. Look not at me, look to yourselves. I am happy to have been the
occasion of rousing an enthusiasm. Take advantage of it, float along
with it, and everything will come right. Love never fails, my son;
today or tomorrow or ages after, truth will conquer. Love shall win
the victory. Do you love your fellow men? Where should you go to
seek for God — are not all the poor, the miserable, the weak, Gods?
Why not worship them first? Why go to dig a well on the shores of
the Gangâ? Believe in the omnipotent power of love. Who cares for
these tinsel puffs of name? I never keep watch of what the
newspapers are saying. Have you love? — You are omnipotent. Are
you perfectly unselfish? If so, you are irresistible. It is character that
pays everywhere. It is the Lord who protects His children in the
depths of the sea. Your country requires heroes; be heroes! God bless
you!
24.Stand up, men and women, in the spirit, dare to believe in the Truth,
dare to practise the Truth! The world requires a few hundred bold men
and women. Practise that boldness which dares know the Truth, which
dares show the Truth in life, which does not quake before death, nay,
welcomes death, makes a man know that he is the Spirit, that, in the
whole universe, nothing can kill him. Then you will be free.
• Let us be brave. KNOW THE TRUTH AND PRACTISE THE
TRUTH. THE GOAL MAY BE DISTINCT, BUT AWAKE,
ARISE, AND STOP NOT TILL THE GOAL IS REACHED.
25.TRUTH IS MY GOD.
26.ONLY KNOW THE TRUTH AND REALISE IT.
28.You have to realize truth and work it out for yourself according
to your own nature.
33.Let us be brave. Know the truth and practice the truth. The goal
may be distant, but awake, arise, and stop not till the goal is
reached.
35.A man must desire nothing else but the truth, and truth for
truth’s sake.
36.I shall work incessantly until I die; and even after death I shall
work for the good of the world. Truth is infinitely more
weighty than untruth; so is goodness. If you possess these,
they will make their way by sheer gravity.
41.You have to realise truth and work it out for yourself according
to your own nature.
44.Truth is God.
62.You must hold fast and be steady in the search for truth.
68.Be bold! My children should be brave, above all. Not the least
compromise on any account. Preach the highest truths
broadcast. Do not fear of losing your respect or of causing
unhappy friction. Rest assured that if you serve truth in spite of
temptations to forsake it, you will attain a heavenly strength,
in the face of which men will quail to speak before you things
which you do not believe to be true. People would be convinced
of what you would say to them, if you can strictly serve truth
for fourteen years continually, without swerving from it.
69.What is Salvation
74.Open the windows of your hearts to the clean light of truth, and
sit like children at the feet of those who knows what they are
talking about-------------------the sages of India.
81.Be not discouraged. One word of truth can never be lost; for
ages it may be hidden under rubbish, but it will show itself
sooner or later.
82.We have to give up ignorance and all that is false, and then truth
will begin to reveal itself to us.
84.Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown
upon you, let your body fall today or after a yuga, see that you
do not deviate from the path of truth. How much of
tempests and waves one had to weather, before one reaches
the heaven of peace. The greater a man has become, the firer
ordeal he has had to pass through.
85.Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over the
others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of
gain, and anger. And the truth is with us!
86.Let us be brave. Know the Truth and practise the Truth. The
goal may be distant, but awake, arise, and stop not till the goal
is reached.
91.We have to give up ignorance and all that is false, and then
truth will begin to reveal itself to us.
92.Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown
upon you, let your body fall today or after a yuga, see that you
do not deviate from the path of truth. How much of
tempests and waves one had to weather, before one reaches
the heaven of peace. The greater a man has become, the firer
ordeal he has had to pass through.
98.You must hold fast and be steady in the search for truth.
99.I shall work incessantly until I die; and even after death I shall
work for the good of the world. Truth is infinitely more
weighty than untruth; so is goodness. If you possess these,
they will make their way by sheer gravity.
104. Love is truth, and hatred is false, because hatred makes for
multiplicity.