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• Man is divine.
• Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.
• Man is the greatest of all beings.
• Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.
• Man is the greatest being that ever can be.
• Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world.
• Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.
• Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.
• Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.
• Man in his true nature is substance, soul, and spirit.
• Man has infinite power within himself, and he can realize it – he can realize himself as the one infinite Self.
• Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.
• Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.
• Man always is perfect or he never could become so.
• Man is a compound of animality, humanity and divinity.
• In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he know, “I am”; but man does not know himself as he is.
• Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.
• The Real Man, therefore, is one and infinite, the omnipresent Spirit.
• Man is a degeneration of what he was.
• Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.
• The perfect man sees nothing but God.
• Man also becomes God.
• Man alone becomes God.
• Man is a creature who thinks.
• Man is the product of tow forces, action and reaction, which make him think.
• Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (Mind).
• Man can think of divine things only in his own human way; to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.
• Man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.
• There are three things in the make-up of man. There is the Body, there is the Mind and there is the Soul.
• Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmani-fested.
• We are all called “Man” because we are the progeny of Manu.
• The glory of man is that he is a thinking being.
• The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.
• The ignorant man never enjoys.
• The selfish man is the most miserable in the world.
• Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.
• As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion.
• Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.
• Man dies but once.
• Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta Philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.
• Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.
• Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.
• Man is not mid, he is Soul.
• Man cannot be satisfied by wealth.
• Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!
• the real man is the one Unit Existence.
• The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man.
• The animal man lives in the senses.
• That is why purity and morality have been always the object of religion; a pure, moral man has control of himself. 

THE THREE WARNINGS:

FIRST SERMON AT SARNATH:

FOUR NOBEL TRUTHS:

1. EXISTENCE OF SORROW

2. CAUSE OF SORROW

3. CESSATION OF SORROW

4. WAY WHICH LEADS TO THE CESSATION OF SORROW

FIVE PRECEPTS:

• If a meditative man constantly worships Me through the path of devotion, all the desires of his heart are destroyed, for I reside in his heart.
• Hence, the practice of knowledge or dispassion is scarcely of any use to the yogi who is devoted to Me and has his mind centred in Me.
• Whatever is acquired through works, austerities, knowledge, dispassion, yoga, charity, or through any other means of well-being, my devotee easily attains it all through devotion to Me.
• The man who has no desire and cares for nothing, attains devotion to Me.
• Merits and defects arising from the performance of acts, do not affect those saints who are exclusively devoted to Me.
• Always praising me, striving with austere vows and bowing down to Me with devotion, always steadfast, they worship Me.
• I look after the accession to and maintenance of the welfare of such ever-devout persons, who think of nothing else and worship Me through meditation.
• By devotion he knows Me truly, how much and what I am. Then, having known Me truly, he forthwith enters into ME.
• Many are the means described for the attainment of the highest good such as love, performance of duty, self-control, truthfulness, sacrifices, gifts, austerity, charity, vows, observance of moral precepts, etc.
• But of all I could name, verily love is the highest - love and devotion that make one forgetful of everything else, love that unites the lover with Me. What ineffable joy does one find through love of Me, the blissful Atman! Once that joy is realized, all earthly pleasures fade into nothingness.
• As fire kindled into a blaze burns the faggots to ashes, so O Uddhava, devotion to Me completely consumes all evil.
• I, the Atman, dear to the devotees, am attainable by love and devotion. Devotion to Me purifies even the lowliest of the low.
• Let not your mind run after the things of the world, for they are empty as dreams. Give your mind to Me, devote yourself to Me, meditate on Me.
• O Uddhava, neither yoga, nor knowledge, nor piety, nor study, nor austerity, nor renunciation captives Me so much as a heightened devotion to Me.
• I, the dear Atman of the pious, am attainable by devotion alone, which is the outcome of faith.
• As gold smelted by fire gives up its dross and gets back its real state, so the mind, by means of a systematic devotion to Me winnows off its desire for work and attains Me.
• The mind of a man who thinks of sense-objects, is attached to them, but the mind of one who remembers Me is merged in Me alone.
• Therefore giving up dwelling on unreal things, which are no better than dreams or fancies, concentrate on ME, the mind clarified by devotion.
• Those who, renouncing all actions in ME and being attracted to Me, worship Me with unswerving devotion, through meditation - these people, who have fixed their mind on Me, I quickly redeem from this ocean of trans-migratory existence beset with death.
• He by whom the world is not afflicted and whom the world cannot afflict, he who is free from joy and anger, fear and anxiety- he is dear to Me.
• He who is free from dependence, who is pure and prompt, unconcerned and untroubled, and who has renounced all undertakings - dear to Me is the man who is thus devoted to Me.
• He who is unchanged by praise or blame, who is silent, content with whatever he has, homeless, firm of mind, and full of devotion - that man is dear to Me.
• Extremely dear to Me are they who regard Me as the Supreme Goal, and endowed with faith and devotion, follow this nectar-like religion. 

• I base my teachings on the great Vedantic truth of the sameness and omnipresence of the Sour of the Universe.
• My religion means expansion, and expansion means realization and perception in the highest sense - no mumbling worlds or genuflections.
• My stay - my guide in life - my refuge - my friend - my teacher - my God - my real Self, Thou wilt never leave me, never.
• My motto is to learn whatever good things I may come across anywhere.
• Only one kind of work I understand, and that is doing good to others; all else is doing evil.
• I like boldness and adventure and my race stands in need of theat spirit very much.
• I am the Advaitist; our goal is knowledge - no feelings, no love, as all that belongs to matter and superstition and bondage.
• For all time my head shall bend low in reverence wherever I see greatness, broadness of heart, and holiness.
• I see clear as daylight that there is the one Brahman in all, in them and me - one Shakti dwells in all. The only difference is of manifestation.
• Individuality is my motto.
• I seek no help. I reject none.
• I only say, awake, awake!
• I will stand by unto death whether you work for India or not, whether you give up Vedanta or remain in it.
• My hope of the future lies in the youths of character - intelligent, renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - who can sacrifice their lives in working out my ideas and thereby do good to themselves and the country at large.
• Mother's grace, Mother's blessings are all paramount to me.
• My ideal indeed can be put into a few words and that is : to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.
• Come what may, I must attain my ideal first.
• Come what may, I shall not forget my duty, whether the world remains or dissolves - these are the words of a great hero.
• I am born to proclaim to them that fearless message - "ARISE, AWAKE!"
• I hate only on thing in the world - hypocrisy.
• I have found the pearl for which I dived into the ocean of life.
• Alone and drifting about in the will-current of the Mother has been my whole life.
• I am attaining peace that passeth understanding, which is neither joy nor sorrow, but something above them both.
• 'I reject the Vedas!' is the last word of the Vedanta philosophy.
• I have never retreated in a fight.
• I want my work to be quick like lightning, and firm as adamant.
• 'India, with all thy faults I love thee still.'
• I am doing to Lord's work, and wherever He leads I follow.
• I love my God, my religion, my country.
• I love the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden, I feel for them - the Lord knows how much.
• Only let me be perfectly pure, perfectly sincere, and perfectly unselfish.
• The upshot of the whole thing is - I want, bold, daring, adventurous spirits to help me. Else I will work alone. I have a mission to fulfill  I will work it out alone.

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