SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

                                                             TRUTHS

       1. ALL THE WEAK AND UNDEVELOPED MINDS IN EVERY RELIGION OR COUNTRY HAVE ONLY ONE WAY OF LOVING THEIR OWN IDEAL, I.E. BY HATING EVERY OTHER IDEAL.

      2. THE WORLD IS READY TO GIVE UP ITS SECRETS IF WE ONLY KNOW HOW TO KNOCK, HOW TO GIVE IT THE NECESSARY BLOW. THE STRENGTH AND FORCE OF THE BLOW COME THROUGH CONCENTRATION. THERE IS NO LIMIT TO THE POWER OF THE HUMAN MIND. THE MORE CONCENTRATED IT IS, THE MORE POWER IS BROUGHT TO.

     3. THE END AND AIM OF ALL SCIENCE IS TO FIND THE UNITY, THE ONE OF WHICH MANIFOLD IS BEING MANUFACTURED, THAT ONE EXISTING AS MANY.

     4. YOU MUST EXERCISE YOUR OWN REASON AND JUDGMENT, YOU MUST PRACTICE, AND SEE WHETHER THESE THING HAPPEN OR NOT. JUST AS YOU WOULD TAKE UP ANY OTHER SCIENCE, EXACTLY IN THE SAME MANNER YOU SHOULD TAKE UP THIS SCIENCE FOR STUDY. THERE IS NEITHER MISTERY NOR DANGER IN IT. SO FAR AS IT IS TRUE, IT OUGHT TO BE PREACHED IN THE PUBLIC STREETS, IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. ANY ATTEMPT TO MYSTIFY THESE THINGS IS PRODUCTIVE OF GREAT DANGER.

    5. EVERYTHING IS INFECTIOUS IN THIS WORLD, GOOD OR BAD.

    6. THE CAUSE BEING KNOW, THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE EFFECTS IS SURE TO FOLLOW.

    7. OUR KNOWLEDGE IS WITHIN THE NETWORK OF MAYA (UNREALITY), AND BEYOND THAT IS FREEDOM. WITHIN THE NETWORK THERE IS SLAVERY, IT IS ALL UNDER LAW, BEYOND THAT THERE IS NO LAW. SO FAR AS THE UNIVERSE IS CONCERNED, EXISTENCE IS RULED BY LAW, AND BEYOND THAT IS FREEDOM.

    8. BODY IS THE NAME OF A SERIES OF CHANGES. AS IN A RIVER THE MASSES OF WATER ARE CHANGING BEFORE YOU EVERY MOMENT, AND NEW MASSES ARE COMING, YET TAKING SIMILAR FORM, SO IS IT WITH THIS BODY. YET THE BODY MUST BE KEPT STRONG AND HEALTHY. IT IS THE BEST INSTRUMENT WE HAVE.

    9. STRENGTH IS GOODNESS, WEAKNESS IS SIN.

   10. THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD SHOULD PRAY NOT FOR MONEY, NOT FOR HEALTH, NOT FOR HEAVEN, PRAY FOR KNOWLEDGE AND LIGHT, EVERY OTHER PRAYER IS SELFISH.

   11. ALL UNHAPPINESS IS CAUSED BY OUR NOT HAVING MASTERY OVER THE BODY... WE ARE ALL PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE... TAKE THE SYSTEM OF WORK, FOR INSTANCE. WE ARE TRYING TO DO GOOD BY... COMFORTING THE POOR. WE DO NOT GET TO THE CAUSE WHICH CREATED THE MISERY. IT IS LIKE TAKING A BUCKET TO EMPTY OUT THE TIME. THE YOGI SEES THAT THIS IS NONSENSE. HE SAYS THAT THE WAY OUT OF MISERY IS TO KNOW THE CAUSE OF MISERY FIRST.

  12.FRIENDSHIP, MERCY, GLADNESS, AND INDIFFERENCE, BEING THOUGHT OF IN REGARD TO SUBJECTS, HAPPY, UNHAPPY, GOOD, AND EVIL RESPECTIVELY, PACIFY THE CHITTA. WE MUST HAVE THESE FOUR SORTS OF IDEAS. WE MUST HAVE FRIENDSHIP FOR ALL, WE MUST BE MERCIFUL TOWARDS THOSE THAT ARE IN MISERY, WHEN PEOPLE ARE HAPPY, WE OUGHT TO BE HAPPY, AND TO THE WICKED WE MUST BE INDIFFERENT.

  13. ARISE, AWAKE, STOP NOT TILL THE GOAL IS REACHED.

  14. INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL PURIFICATION, CONTENTMENT, MORTIFICATION, STUDY, AND WORSHIP OF GOD ARE THE NIYAMAS.

  15. WHEN THIS SUSHUMNA CURRENT UPENS, AND BEGINS TO RISE, WE GET BEYOND THE SENSES, OUR MINDS BECOME SUPERSENSUOUS, SUPERCONSCIOUS- WE GET BEYOND EVEN THE INTELLECT.

  16. STAND ALONE! SEE THE GLORY OF YOUR OWN SOUL, AND SEE THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO WORK.

  17. TAKE UP ONE IDEA. MAKE THAT ONE IDEA YOUR LIFE- THINK OF IT, DREAM OF IT, LIVE ON THAT IDEA. LET THE BRAIN, MUSCLES, NERVES, EVERY PART OF YOUR BODY, BE FULL OF THAT IDEA, AND JUST LEAVE EVERY OTHER IDEA ALONE. THIS IS THE WAY TO SUCCESS.

   18. AWAKE, AWAKE, GREAT ONES! THE WORLD IS BURNING WITH MISERY. CAN YOU SLEEP?. 

   19. MISERY IS CAUSED BY IGNORANCE AND NOTHING ELSE.

   20. REASON CAN GO ONLY TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, BEYOND THAT IT CANNOT REACH. THE CIRCLE WITHIN WHICH IT RUNS IS VERY VERY LIMITED INDEED. YET AT THE SAME TIME, WE FIND FACTS RUSH INTO THIS CIRCLE. LIKE THE COMING OF COMETS CERTAIN THINGS COME INTO THIS CIRCLE, IT IS CERTAIN THEY COME FROM OUTSIDE THE LIMIT, ALTHOUGH OUR REASON CANNOT GO BEYOND.