Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Competition

• If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Ambition, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2938, Manonmani Publishers

• Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been barred and the infinite tide behind is struggling to express itself. These struggles and competitions are but the results of our ignorance, because we do not know the proper way to unlock the gate and let the water in. This infinite tide behind must express itself; it is the cause of all manifestation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Ignorance, Water

  Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.143, Jazzybee Verlag

• Ay! says the Vedanta, it is not the fault of God that this partiality exists, that this competition exists. Who makes it? We ourselves. There is a cloud shedding its rain on all fields alike. But it is only the field that is well cultivated, which gets the advantage of the shower; another field, which has not been tilled or taken care of cannot get that advantage. It is not the fault of the cloud.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Rain, Taken, Clouds

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1054, Manonmani Publishers

• Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct, all ideality will be extinct; and in its place will reign the duality of lust and luxury as the male and female deities, with money as its priest, fraud, force, and competition its ceremonies, and the human soul its sacrifice. Such a thing can never be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sweet, Sacrifice, Luxury

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1744, Manonmani Publishers

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