Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Cats

• A man, and a cat, and a dog, are all animals. These particular examples, as man, or dog, or cat, are parts of a bigger and more general concept, animal. The man, and the cat, and the dog, and the plant, and the tree, all come under the still more general concept, life. Again, all these, all beings and all materials, come under the one concept of existence, for we all are in it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Cat, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

• Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.8, editionNEXT.com

• Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then to become a man! Vain have been my years - hundreds of years - of struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyments.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Mistake, Struggle

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1642, Manonmani Publishers

• My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Brother, Cat

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

• [Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord' all the time; but let the cat come and take hold of its neck, it forgets all about it" [You may] pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are, [but] unless you realise the soul there is no freedom. Not talking, theorising, argumentation, but realisation. That I call practical religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Cat, Talking, Soul

• Seeing a cat loving her kittens stand and pray. God has become manifest there; literally believe this. Repeat "I am Thine, I am Thine", for we can see God everywhere. Do not seek for Him, just see Him.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Cat, Praying

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and a cat ruling it. So we see from this that our explanation of the universe is not the whole of the solution.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Cat, Philosopher, Problem

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.65, editionNEXT.com

• Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot. . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Cat, Animal, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.467, Manonmani Publishers

• Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Cat, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1975). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Pain, Cat

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