Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Anger

• Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of perseverance), and destruction of everything. (Narada Bhakti Sutra)

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Anger, Evil

• Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Names, Greed

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

• It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Fighting, Creating

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.42, Advaita Ashrama

• The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Passion, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2017). “Vedanta: Voice of Freedom”, p.359, Vedanta Society of St. Louis

• The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Men, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.162, Vivekananda Kendra

• Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Giving Up, Anger

  Swami Vivekananda, (2013). “Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda”, p.39, Read Books Ltd

• Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Sorrow, Senses

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

• God is the one goal of all our passions and emotions. If you want to be angry, be angry with Him. Chide your Beloved, chide your Friend. Whom else can you safely chide? Mortal man will not patiently put up with your anger; there will be a reaction. If you are angry with me I am sure quickly to react, because I cannot patiently put up with your anger. Say unto the Beloved, "Why do You not come to me; why do You leave me thus alone?" Where is there any enjoyment but in Him? What enjoyment can there be in little clods of earth?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Passion, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1962). “What Religion is: In the Words of Swami Vivekananda”

• Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Chains, Gates

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1790, Manonmani Publishers

• Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Hatred, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2639, Manonmani Publishers

• The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Passion, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2607, Manonmani Publishers

• Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Passion, Balance

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.162, Vivekananda Kendra

• Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is "righteous".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Sin, Righteous

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.156, Advaita Ashrama

• Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a crow and crane by his intense will, produced by anger?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Psychics, Crow

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.307, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Men, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1803, Manonmani Publishers

• I am neither man nor angel. I have no sex nor limit. I am knowledge itself. I am He. I have neither anger nor hatred. I have neither pain nor pleasure. Death or birth I never had. For I am Knowledge Absolute, and Bliss Absolute. I am He, my soul, I am He!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sex, Pain, Anger

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3689, Manonmani Publishers

• Don't you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex - appetite or anger?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sex, Anger, Weak

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Bliss, Infinite

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.114, editionNEXT.com

• If I am immune against all anger, I never feel angry.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Feels, Immune

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.53, editionNEXT.com

• Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Slave, Hundred

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.41, Advaita Ashrama

• As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Men, Littles

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2253, Manonmani Publishers

• Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you are not perfect in all of these; work, they will come. He who has given up all attachment, all fear, and all anger, he whose whole soul has gone unto the Lord, he who has taken refuge in the Lord, whose heart has become purified, with whatsoever desire he comes to the Lord, He will grant that to him. Therefore worship Him through knowledge, love, or renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Taken, Heart

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.59, Advaita Ashrama

• I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious", and so forth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Anger, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.156, Advaita Ashrama

• There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Killing, Righteous

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3117, Manonmani Publishers

• He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Envy, Hatred

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.12, editionNEXT.com

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