Narayanananda Swami. quotes

“Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming and being one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and dogmas are only details of a secondary nature.”
-- Narayanananda Swami.

Source : "A Practical Guide to Samadhi". Book by Swami Narayanananda, p. 143, 1957.

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“There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.”
-- Narayanananda Swami.

Source : "Revelation". Book by Narayanananda Swami p. 168 (2001 edition), 1951.

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“Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.”
-- Narayanananda Swami.

Source : "The Way to Peace, Power and Long Life". Book by Swami Narayanananda, p. 121 (2001 edition), 1945.

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“Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.”
-- Narayanananda Swami.

Source : "A Practical Guide to Samadhi". Book by Swami Narayanananda, p. 144 (2001 edition), 1957.

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“The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.”

“Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.”

“I heard my name." Ash's voice startles me. "You tow better not be making fun of me about this stupid bra Mama's making me wear. I've had it with the jokes. I'll break both your noses if it doesn't stop.”

“The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!”

“Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.”

“The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.”

“So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.”

“What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.”

“I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.”

“I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.”