Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Creation

• Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Reading, Reality, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.968, Manonmani Publishers

• Since everything emanates from God, he is the embodied principle in every being. Each one of us is made from God. Tat twam asi - "You are That One" who is eternally blissful, that one principle manifesting itself as this variety of Creation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  God, Principles, Creation

• 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

• Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Creation, Highest

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.128, editionNEXT.com

• The vapour becomes snow, then water, then Ganga; but when it is vapour, there is no Ganga, and when it is water, we think of no vapour in it. The idea of creation or change is inseparably connected with will. So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3163, Manonmani Publishers

• Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soul, Stopping, Creation

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

• There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Attitude, Men, Creation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Raja Yoga: Art of Living”, p.85, editionNEXT.com

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