OM SAI RAM

What do I care

if somebody was a Goodman,

or Bad!

Does that alter

my own goodness or evil?

Let us be good

for our own sake

on our own responsibility!

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.

This world

is the great gymnasium

where we come

to make ourselves strong.

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 institution

he may live.

The individuals being raised,

the nation and its institutions

are bound to rise.

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.

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.

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

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 succour

you want

is within yourselves.


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 for ever.

‘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.