Study your mind!

I:42.08 - In most cases, our personality is a chaotic mass ofhalf-conscious or unconscious impulses.

First of all, we must rid ourselves of all likes and dislikes brought about by unconscious impulse and prejudice.

Only thus can we acquire an individuality that can be joined to the universal.

There is nothing grand in having strong irrational feelings bubbling up from the unconscious.

Passionateness is not the sign of manhood at all.

Hatred and dislike are nothing but weakness and self-excuse.

The fun is we live on impulses and say we are free.

Where is all this wonderful freedom of the modern man or woman?

A passion-ridden slave calling himself free!. What fun!

I:42.09 - Most of us are like awful poisonous whirlpools, full ofcomplexes and venom.

Break up these complexes, first of all, be one with the current, and your whole life would be full of blessing for yourselves and for others.

The task is not an easy one. It requires real heroism and tremendous steadiness.

swami Yatiswarananda

readings of the gospel of sri ramakrishna

Wiesbaden, Germany, June 16, 1934 --

(Vol.I 287-290)[CG 200-202]