If you want to be religious, enter not the gate of any organized religion.

 Swami Vivekananda wrote:

……‘’If you want to be religious, enter not the gate of any organized religion.

They do a hundred times more evil than good, because they stop the growth of each one's individual development.... Religion is only between you and your God, and no third person must come between you.

Think what these organized religions have done!

What Napoleon was more terrible than those religious persecutions?

If you and I organize, we begin to hate every person. It is better not to love, if loving only means hating others. That is no love. That is hell!

If loving your own people means hating everybody else, it is the quintessence of selfishness and brutality, and the effect is that it will make you brutes’’…..

Swami Vivekananda on Brahmacharya

 Swami Vivekananda on Brahmacharya

1 "That power comes to him who observes unbroken Brahmacharya for a period of twelve years, with the sole object of realising God I have practiced that kind of Brahmacharya myself, and so a screen has been removed, as it were, from my brain."

2"The chaste brain has tremendous energy and gigantic will power. Without chastity there can be no spiritual strength. Continence gives wonderful control over mankind.The spiritual leaders of men have been very continent and this is what gave them power."

3"Every boy should be trained to practice absolute Brahmacharya and then, and then alone faith and Shraddha will come. Chastity in thought, word and deed always and in all conditions is what is called Brahmacharya. Unchaste imagination is as bad as unchaste action. The Brahmacharin must be pure in thought, word and deed."

4"In order to attain to ideal Brahmacharya one has in the beginning to observe strict rules regarding chastity. For minimum 12 years, one should keep oneself strictly aloof from the least association with the opposite sex as far as possible. When spiritual aspirants are established in the ideal of Sannyasa and brahmacharya, they will be able to mix on an equal footing with worldly men without any harm. But in the beginning 12 years, if they do not keep themselves within the barriers of strict rules, they will all go wrong."

5"Brahmacharya should be like a burning fire within the veins!"

6"Obedience to the Guru without questioning, and strict observance of Brahmacharya — this is the secret of success."

7"To be able to realize God, one must practise absolute continence. Sages like Sukadeva are examples of an urdhareta. (A man of unbroken and complete continence.) Their chastity was absolutely unbroken. There is another class, who previously have had discharges of semen but who later on have controlled them. A man controlling the seminal fluid for twelve years develops a special power. He grows a new inner nerve called the nerve of memory. Through that nerve he remembers all, he understands all