This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Swami VivekanandaThe attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures.
Swami VivekanandaUntil we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.
Swami Vivekananda