Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Age

• Ours is the only religion that does not depend on a person or persons; it is based upon principles. At the same time there is room for millions of persons. There is ample ground for introducing persons, but each one of them must be an illustration of the principles. We must not forget that. These principles of our religion are all safe, and it should be the life-work of everyone of us to keep then safe, and to keep them free from the accumulating dirt and dust of ages.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Illustration, Dust, Age

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.213, editionNEXT.com

• Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Age, Firsts

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.413, Manonmani Publishers

• I reached Ghazipur three days ago. Here I am putting up in the house of Babu Satish Chandra Mukherji, a friend of my early age. The place is very pleasant. Close by flows the Ganga, but bathing there is troublesome, for there is no regular path, and it is hard work wading through sands.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hard Work, Here I Am, House

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2717, Manonmani Publishers

• When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it

  Swami Vivekananda

  Health, Age, Body

• There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Ideas, Age

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.31, Advaita Ashrama

• Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal king, this Rama has been presented before us by the great sage Valmiki. No language can be purer, none chaster, none more beautiful, and at the same time simpler, than the language in which the great poet has depicted the life of Rama.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Kings, Husband

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1169, Manonmani Publishers

• Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for which one is best suited. But in this age, special stress should be laid on karma yoga.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Spiritual, Stress

• With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be burned down.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Fire, Age

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.65, Vivekananda Kendra

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