Chapter 10 Even if we perish while serving and nursing others, we should consider ourselves fortunate because they are the embodiments of God. He who thinks otherwise – out of vanity, superstition or ignorance, offends God and incurs great sin. “Feel for the miserable and look up for help
Chapter 9 A man must go about his duties without taking notice of the sneers and ridicules of the world. “Let the sages blame or praise, let Lakshmi come today or let her go away, let death come just now or in a hundred years; he indeed is the
Chapter 8 You gain nothing by becoming cowards. Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune as cowards never win victories. So “making pleasure and misery the same, making success and defeat the same, do thou stand up and fight. If you die, you get to heaven;
Chapter 7 Day by day I am feeling that the Lord is with me, and I am trying to follow His directions. His will be done. I shall have one man only to follow me but he must be true and faithful unto death. I do not care for
Chapter 6 “Wherever you find a great soul of immense power and purity struggling to raise humanity, know that he is born of My splendour and that I am there working through him!” Only the ignorant, the skeptical and the willfully blind will not accept it. With the hour
Chapter 5 All the various ideas that I am a man or woman, sick or healthy, strong or weak, are all hallucinations. Always repeat, “I am He, I am He”, think of it, dream of it until all the hideous dreams, of hatred, weakness, misery and evil, do entirely
Chapter 4 The heart must be plucked out and the bleeding heart placed upon the altar. Then great things are done. Get up, put your shoulders to the wheel for how long is this life! As you have come in this world, leave some mark behind. When you first
Chapter 3 Today, our country needs heroes; so be heroes! We now need the heroes who will dare to die for the country instead of devoting themselves to their own happiness – the heroes whose armour is renunciation and whose sword is wisdom. We now want the spirit of
Chapter 2 We have to pour the medicine down the throat of a kicking and refractory child! We have just to help people to regain their faith and vitality, then they will grapple and solve their problems on their own. Let us call and call till the sleeping gods
Chapter 1 “O India! With this mere echoing of others, with this base imitation of others, with this dependence on others, with this slavish weakness, this vile detestable cruelty – would you, with these provisions only, scale the highest pinnacle of civilisation and greatness? Would you attain, by means