Thoughts on the Gita Quotes

“If you want to be religious, enter not the gate of any organized religions. They do a hundred times more evil than good, because they stop the growth of each one's individual development. Study everything, but keep your own seat firm. If you take my advice, do not put your neck into the trap. The moment they try to put their noose on you, get your neck out and go somewhere else. [As] flowers the bee culling honey from many be not bound... remains free, not bound by any flower, Enter not the door of any organized religion. [Religion] is only between you and your God, and no third person must come between you.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Thoughts on the Gita

“the Christian stands up and says, "My religion is a historical religion and therefore yours is wrong and ours is true," [the Mimamsaka replies], "Yours being historical, you confess that a man invented it nineteen hundred years ago. That which is true must be infinite and eternal. That is the one test of truth. It never decays, it is always the same. You confess your religion was created by such-and-such a man. The Vedas were not. By no prophets or anything. Only infinite words, infinite by their very nature, from which the whole universe comes and goes.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Thoughts on the Gita

“Hate not the most abject sinner, look not to his exterior. Turn thy gaze inward, where resides the Paramatman. Proclaim to the whole world thee, with trumpet voice, "There is no sin in thee, there is no misery in thee; thou art the reservoir of omnipotent power. Arise, awake, and manifest the Divinity within!”
― Swami Vivekananda, Thoughts on the Gita

“There is only one sin. That is weakness. When a boy I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had arny respect only for was Satan. The saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything and determines to die game.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Thoughts on the Gita