Man -The Maker of His Destiny | Swami Vivekananda
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man the maker of his destiny we are
responsible for what we are and whatever
we wish ourselves to be we have the
power to make ourselves if what we are
now has been the result of our own past
actions
it certainly follows that whatever we
wish to be in future can be produced by
our present actions so we have to know
how to act
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this human body is the greatest body in
the universe and a human being the
greatest being man is higher than all
animals than all angels and is greater
than man
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man is man so long as he is struggling
to rise above nature and this nature is
both internal and external and if we
read the history of nations between the
lines we shall always find that the rise
of a nation comes with an increase in
the number of such men and the fall
begins when the pursuit after the
infinite however vain the utilitarians
may call it has seized that is to say
the mainspring of the strength of every
race lies in its spirituality and the
death of that race begins the day that
spirituality veins and materialism gains
ground
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this world is the great gymnasium where
we come to make ourselves strong
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all healthy social changes are the
manifestations of the spiritual forces
working within and if these are strong
and well-adjusted society will arrange
itself accordingly each individual has
to work out his own salvation there is
no other way and so also with nations it
is very easy to point out the defects of
institutions all being more or less
imperfect but he is the real benefactor
of humanity who helps the individual to
overcome his imperfections under
whatever institutions he may live the
individuals being raised the nation and
its institutions are bound to rise
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you have to grow from inside out none
can teach you none can make you
spiritual there is no other teacher but
your own soul
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men in general lay all the blame of life
on their fellowmen or failing that on
God or they conjure up a ghost and say
it is fate
where is fate and who is fate we reap
what we sow we are the makers of our own
fate none else has the blame none has
the praise the wind is blowing those
vessels who sails are unfurled catch it
and go forward on their way but those
which have their sails furled do not act
the wind is that the fault of the wind
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say this misery that I am suffering is
of my own doing and that very thing
proves that it will have to be undone by
me alone that which I created I can
demolish that which is created by
someone else I shall never be able to
destroy therefore stand up be bold
be strong take the whole responsibility
on your own shoulders and know that you
are the creator of your own destiny all
the strength and sucker you want is
within yourselves
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make your own future let the dead past
bury its dead the infinite future is
before you and you must always remember
that each word thought and deed lays up
a store for you and that as the bad
thoughts and bad works are ready to
spring upon you like tigers so also
there is the inspiring hope that the
good thoughts and good deeds are ready
with the power of a hundred thousand
angels to defend you always and forever
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ours not to reason why ours but to do
and die be of good cheer and believe
that we are selected by the Lord to do
great things and we will do them
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unfortunately in this life the vast
majority of persons are groping through
this dark life without any ideal at all
if a man with an ideal makes a thousand
mistakes I am sure that the man without
an ideal makes fifty thousand therefore
it is better to have an ideal
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man begins to struggle and fight against
nature
he makes many mistakes he suffers but
eventually he conquers nature and
realizes his freedom when he is free
nature becomes his slave
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I disagree with the idea that freedom is
obedience to the laws of nature I do not
understand what that means according to
the history of human progress it is
disobedience to nature that is
constituted that progress
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for the world can be good and pure only
if our lives are good and pure it is an
effect and we are the means therefore
let us PFI ourselves let us make
ourselves perfect
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what is the use of fighting and
complaining that will not help us to
better things
he who grumbles at the little thing that
has fallen to his lot to do will grumble
at everything always grumbling he will
lead a miserable life and everything
will be a failure but that man who does
his duty as he goes putting his shoulder
to the wheel will see the light and
higher and higher duties will fall to
his share
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do not fly away from the wheels of the
world machine but stand inside it and
learn the secret of work through proper
work done inside it is also possible to
come out
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every thought that we think every deed
that we do after a certain time becomes
fine goes into seed form so to speak and
lives in the fine body in a potential
form and after a time it emerges again
and bares its results these results
condition the life of man thus he molds
his own life man is not bound by any
other laws accepting those which he
makes for himself
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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 moment of life
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purity patience and perseverance are the
three essentials to success and above
all love
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life is ever-expanding contraction is
death the self-seeking man who is
looking after his personal comforts and
leading a lazy life there is no room for
him even in hell
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I'm sure God will pardon a man who will
use his reason and cannot believe rather
than a man who believes blindly instead
of using the faculties he has given him
we must reason and when reason proves to
us the truth of these prophets and great
men about whom the ancient books speak
in every country we shall believe in
them
we shall believe in them when we see
such prophets among ourselves we shall
then find that they were not peculiar
men but only illustrations of certain
principles
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why should you not try to hit the mark
we become wiser through failures time is
infinite look at the wall did the wall
ever tell a lie it is always the wall
man tells a lie and becomes a god - it
is better to do something never mind
even if it proves to be wrong it is
better than doing nothing the cow never
tells a lie but she remains a cow all
the time
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go on doing good thinking holy thoughts
continuously that is the only way to
suppress base impressions never say any
man is hopeless because he only
represents a character a bundle of
habits which can be checked by new and
better ones character is repeated habits
and repeated habits alone can reform
character the chase brain has tremendous
energy and gigantic willpower
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we can overcome the difficulty by
constant practice we must learn that
nothing can happen to us unless we make
ourselves susceptible to it
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I was once traveling in the Himalayas
and the long road stretched before us we
poor monks cannot get anyone to carry us
so we had to make all the way on foot
there was an old man with us he said Oh
sir how to cross it I cannot walk
anymore
my chest will break I said to him look
down at your feet he did so and I said
the road that is under your feet is the
road that you have passed over and is
the same road that you see before you
it will soon be under your feet the
highest things are under your feet
because you are divine stars
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it is the coward and the fool who says
this is fate so says the Sanskrit
proverb but it is the strongman who
stands up and says I will make my fate
it is people who are getting old who
talk of fate young men generally do not
come to astrology
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if you really want to judge of the
character of a man look not at his great
performances every fool may become a
hero at one time or another watch a man
do his most common actions those are
indeed the things which will tell you
the real character of a great man great
occasions rouse even the lowest of human
beings to some kind of greatness but he
alone is the really great man whose
character is great always the same
wherever he be
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every good thought that we send to the
world without thinking of any return
will be stored up there and break one
link in the chain and make us pure and
pure until we become the purest of
mortals
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if you project hatred and jealousy
they will rebound on you with compound
interest no power can avert them when
once you have put them in motion you
will have to bear them remembering this
will prevent you from doing wicked
things
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everything is conscious which rebels
against nature
their consciousness is manifested just
try to kill a little ant even it will
once resist to save its life where there
is struggle where there is rebellion
there is the sign of life their
consciousness is manifested
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isn't it man that makes money where did
you ever hear of money making man if you
can make your thoughts and words
perfectly at one if you can I say make
yourself one in speech and action money
will pour in at your feet of itself like
water
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the road to the good is the roughest and
steepest in the universe it is a wonder
that Sunni succeed no wonder that so
many fall character has to be
established through a thousand stumbles
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each soul is potentially divine the goal
is to manifest this divinity within by
controlling nature external and internal
do this either by work or worship or
psychic control of philosophy by one or
more or all of these and be free this is
the whole of religion doctrines or
dogmas or rituals or books or temples or
forms are but secondary details
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each one thinks his method is best very
good but remember it may be good for you
one food which is very indigestible to
one is very digestible to another
because it is good for you do not jump
to the conclusion that your method is
everybody's method the jacks coat fits
John and Mary all the uneducated
uncultured unthinking men and women have
been put into that sort of
straightjacket think for yourselves
become atheists become materialists that
would be better exercise the mind what
right have you to say that this man's
method is wrong it may be wrong for you
that is to say if you want to take the
method you will be degraded but that
does not mean that he will be degraded
therefore if you have knowledge and see
a man weak do not condemn him go to his
level and help him if you can he must
grow I can put five bucketfuls of
knowledge into his head in five hours
but what good will it do he will be a
little worse than before
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go and preach to all rise awake Sleep No
More within each of you there is the
power to remove all wants and all
miseries believe this and that power
will be manifested if you can think that
infinite power infinite knowledge and
indomitable energy lie with you and if
you can bring out that power
you also can become like me
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