Swami Prabhavananda Quotes

#1. I cannot say that I know Brahman fully.
Nor can I say that I know him not ...
Nor do I know that I know him not.

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#2. The mind is like a lake lashed into waves. Make the water of the lake clear and calm.

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#3. There is no failure in the spiritual life, as long as we do not give up the fight.

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#4. To darkness are they doomed who worship only the body, and to greater darkness they who worship only the spirit.

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#5. The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe.
The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightening and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not.

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#6. The right relation between prayer and conduct," wrote Archbishop Temple, "is not that conduct is supremely important and prayer may help it, but that prayer is supremely important and conduct tests it.

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#7. That which is not comprehended by the mind but by which the mind comprehends - know that ...

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#8. The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy.

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#9. The breeze of God's grace is blowing continually. You have to set your sail to catch that breeze.

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#10. Thou art imperishable. Thou art changeless reality. Thou art the source of life.

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#11. As the sun, revealer of all objects to the seer, is not harmed by the sinful eye, nor by the impurities of the objects it gazes on, so the one Self, dwelling in all, is not touched by the evils of the world. (The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, pg. 35)

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#12. Give your body and mind to worldly enjoyments, and the world will destroy them both. Devote them to God and his service, and you will enjoy bodily health, peace of mind, and spiritual joy.

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#13. If we attempt nothing more than a rigid negative control of the waves of desire, without raising waves of love, compassion and devotion to oppose them, then the result may be even more tragic.

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#14. The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action.

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