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  1. If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man's head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of…
  2. If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is th…
  3. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves.
  4. If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This…
  5. I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? …
  6. If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at fr…
  7. However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.
  8. Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.

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