Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Blame

• We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fate, Divinity, Blame

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.107, editionNEXT.com

• This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Lessons

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.480, Manonmani Publishers

• Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Suffering, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.108, editionNEXT.com

• We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Eye, Long, Weakness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.107, editionNEXT.com

• 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

• Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Suffering, Mud

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.389, editionNEXT.com

• Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come or go wherever she wisheth, let death overtake him today or after a century, the wise man never swerves from the path of rectitude." Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Wise, Fall, Men

• Let us blame none, let us blame our own Karma.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Blame

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.75, Vivekananda Kendra

• When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Suffering, Blame

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.292, Manonmani Publishers

• Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused by ourselves, and none else in the universe is to blame. God is the least to blame for it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Suffering, Misery

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Misery, Blame

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.81, SkyLight Paths Publishing

• Who shall blame whom, who praise whom? Whom to seek, whom to avoid? I seek none, nor avoid any, for I am all the universe. I praise myself, I blame myself, I suffer for myself, I am happy at my own will, I am free. This is the Jnâni, the brave and daring. Let the whole universe tumble down; he smiles and says it never existed, it was all a hallucination. He sees the universe tumble down. Where was it! Where has it gone!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Brave, Suffering, Gone

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)”, p.44, editionNEXT.com

• Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Luck, Trying, Blame

• Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let all the wealth of the earth come to your feet, or let you be made the poorest on earth. Let death come this moment or hundreds of years hence. Swerve not from the path you have taken. All good thoughts are immortal and go to make Buddhas and Christs.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Taken, Years

• You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Wall, Bricks, Blame

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4493, Manonmani Publishers

• 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

• How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Credit, Blame

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heat, Blame, Cold

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

• If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mind, Blame, Praise

  Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.126, New World Library

• We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, "Oh, the world is a devil's world." We curse others and say, "What infatuated fools!" But why should we be in such a world, if we really are so good? If this is a devil's world, we must be devils also; why else should we be here? "Oh, the people of the world are so selfish!" True enough; but why should we be found in that company, if we be better? Just think of that.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Selfish, Thinking, People

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.480, Manonmani Publishers

• If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody to grope towards, no devil to lay our blame upon, no Personal God to carry our burdens, when we are alone responsible, then we shall rise to our highest and best. I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Responsibility, Fate, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (1935). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

• We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Husband, Hands

  Swami Vivekananda (2007). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mistake, Ignorant, Blame

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1324, Manonmani Publishers

• Is God to blame for what I myself have done?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Done, Blame

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4460, Manonmani Publishers

• We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Wise, Caring, Lions

  Babaji Bob Kindler, Annapurna Sarada, Swami Vivekananda, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Kenneth Wapnick (2002). “Nectar #7: The Excellence of Sacrifice and Self-Effort”, p.24, Sarada Ramakrishna Vivekananda Associations

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