As soon as you say,"I'm a little mortal being," you are saying something which is not true you are giving the lie to yourselves,you are hypnotising yourselves into something vile and weak and wretched.
The Greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
To call another a sinner is the worst thing you can do.
Come up ,O Lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep;you are souls immortal,spirits free, blest and eternal;you are not matter,you are not bodies;matter is your servant ,not you the servant of matter.
"Children of immortal bliss" -- what a sweet, what a hopeful name! Allow me to call you brethren, by that sweet name -- heirs of immortal bliss... You are the children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss ,holy and perfect beings.You divinities on earth -- sinners! It is a sin to call a man so;It is standing libel on Human Nature.
The more I live, the more I become convinced everyday that every human being is divine.In no man or woman , however vile, does that divinity die.
Say not man is a sinner.Tell him that he is a God.
Silly fools tell you that you are sinners, and you sit down in a corner and weep.It is foolishness,wickedness,down-right rascality to say that you are sinners!You are all God.
The greatest error,says the Vedanta, is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.Everytime you think in that way, you as it were, rivet one more link in the chain that binds you down,you add one more layer of hypnoticism into your own soul.Therefore , whosoever thinks he is weak is wrong,whosoever thinks he is impure is wrong, and is throwing a bad thought into the world.
If you , my sons, can proclaim this message to the world - "klaibhyam maa sma gamah partha . Nai tat tvam upapadyate " (Yield not to unmanliness, O son of Pritha(Arjuna);it does not befit thee) -- then all this disease ,grief, sin and sorrow will vanish off from the face of the earth in three days.
--Swami Vivekananda
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