Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Country

• It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children of such a country.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Children, Land

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1196, Manonmani Publishers

• Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Three, Generations

• Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2076, Manonmani Publishers

• So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Dog, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “My Life and Mission”, p.20, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent,
  renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - good to themselves and the country at large

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Lying, Character

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.165, Vivekananda Kendra

• Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Law

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1412, Manonmani Publishers

• I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Girl, Country

• We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Character, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.290, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Swami Vivekananda (1996). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Principles, Form

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2546, Manonmani Publishers

• How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Progress, Spread

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

• Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar country? The poor Pariah is not allowed to pass through the same street as the high-caste man, but if he changes his name to a hodge-podge English name, it is all right; or to a Mohammedan name, it is all right.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Men, Names

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1204, Manonmani Publishers

• I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, India, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.166, Advaita Ashrama

• Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, India, Movement

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1849, Manonmani Publishers

• "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Can we see God? Of course not. Can we know God? Of course not. If God can be known, He will be God no longer. Knowledge is limitation. But I and my Father are one: I find the reality in my soul. These ideas are expressed in some religions, and in others only hinted. In some they were expatriated. Christ's teachings are now very little understood in this country. If you will excuse me, I will say that they have never been very well understood.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Jesus, Father

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.296, Manonmani Publishers

• We want Shraddhâ, we want faith in our own selves. Strength is life, weakness is death. 'We are the Âtman, deathless and free; pure, pure by nature. Can we ever commit any sin? Impossible!' - such a faith is needed. Such a faith makes men of us, makes gods of us. It is by losing this idea of Shraddha that the country has gone to ruin.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Country, Men

• We must travel; we must go to foreign parts. We must see how the engine of society works in other countries, and keep free and open communication with what is going on in the minds of other nations, if we really want to be a nation again.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Country, Communication

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1904, Manonmani Publishers

• These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every soul, irrespective of nation, country, or position.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Children, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2011). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.56, Duncan Baird Publishers

• You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is simply marvellous! Whatever it be, the book is the centre round which human allegiance gathers. Not one religion is living today but has a book. With all its rationalism and tall talk, humanity still clings to the books. In your country every attempt to start a religion without a book has failed. In India sects rise with great success, but within a few years they die down, because there is no book behind them. So in every other country.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Book, Years

• There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Ideas, Age

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.31, Advaita Ashrama

• The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Art, Paris

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “The East and the West: (Prachya o Paschatya)”, p.59, editionNEXT.com

• The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Country, Real

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Country, Husband

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.61, Advaita Ashrama

• What we want now is an immense awakening of Râjasika energy, for the whole country is wrapped in the shroud of Tamas. The people of this land must be fed and clothed-must be awakened -must be made more fully active. Otherwise they will become inert, as inert as trees and stones. So, I say, eat large quantities of fish and meat, my boy!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Boys, Land

• I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Saint, Philosopher

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2008, Manonmani Publishers

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