Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Consciousness

• All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.34, Manonmani Publishers

• Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ocean, Consciousness, Infinite

• No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person.

  Swami Vivekananda

  If There Is A God, Needs, Facts

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

• Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time universal. It is while realising our individual nature that we realise even our national and universal nature. Each is an infinite circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. By practice one can feel universal Selfhood which is the essence of Hinduism. He who sees in every being his own Self is a Pandita (sage).

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Practice, Circles

• Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Desire, Body, Superstitions

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3600, Manonmani Publishers

• If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control, to attain to that consciousness from which you will be able to study the mind and remain unmoved by any of its wild gyrations. Otherwise the facts observed will not be reliable; they will not apply to all people and therefore will not be truly facts or data at all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Practice, Data, Discipline

  Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used to say, attachment for Kâma-Kânchana (sense-pleasure and wealth). In the perfect realisation of love, even the consciousness of one's own body does not exist. Also, the supreme Jnana is to realise the oneness everywhere, to see one's own self as the Self in everything. That too cannot come so long as there is the least consciousness of the ego (Aham).

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Oneness, Attachment

• This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ego, Body, Causes

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.864, Manonmani Publishers

• Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Meditation, Growth

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1639, Manonmani Publishers

• As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

• Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Self, Consciousness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.19, editionNEXT.com

• This world, this universe which our senses feel, or our mind thinks, is but one atom, so to say, of the Infinite, projected on to the plane of consciousness; and within that narrow limit, defined by the network of consciousness, works our reason, and not beyond. Therefore, there must be some other instrument to take us beyond, and that instrument is called inspiration.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Thinking, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.66, editionNEXT.com

• The wind of divine grace is always blowing. You just need to spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with your whole heart concentrated on it. Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Being-Consciousness-Bliss. What fear and anxiety have I?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Night, Thinking

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