Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.
Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.
How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!
If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.
Is God to blame for what I myself have done?
It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else.
Let us blame none, let us blame our own Karma.
No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.
Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.
We are slaves in the hands of nature – slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.
We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether “the wise ones praise or blame us”.
When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here to work, and will have to leave all when the call comes.
When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.
He who conquers self conquers all.
We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.
According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts – the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self.
All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies.
Body is the name of a series of changes.
Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.