Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Dreams

• Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.141, Vivekananda Kendra

• Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Giving Up, Let It Go

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3177, Manonmani Publishers

• Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body is only an inert instrument. And the Atman within is your real nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Real, Thinking

• There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real "you." All the gods are little beings to you, all the ideas of God and Father in heaven are but your own reflection. God Himself is your image. “God created man after His own image." That is wrong. Man creates God after his own image. That is right. Throughout the universe we are creating gods after our own image. We create the god and fall down at his feet and worship him; and when this dream comes, we love it !

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Father, Real

  "The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda".

• Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Blow, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Dream, Jesus

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.30, editionNEXT.com

• Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is found that the one Self only exists from the highest Being to a blade of grass.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Men, Self

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3047, Manonmani Publishers

• God is true. The universe is a dream. Blessed am I that I know this moment that I have been and shall be free all eternity; ... that I know that I am worshiping only myself; that no nature, no delusion, had any hold on me. Vanish nature from me, vanish these gods; vanish worship; ... vanish superstitions, for I know myself. I am the Infinite. All these - Mrs. So-and-so, Mr. So-and-so, responsibility, happiness, misery - have vanished. I am the Infinite. How can there be death for me, or birth? Whom shall I fear? I am the One. Shall I be afraid of myself? Who is to be afraid of whom?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Dream, Blessed

• Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Dream, Giving Up

  Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.55, Jazzybee Verlag

• Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Thinking, Body

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.264, 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 the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Men, Infinite

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “My Life and Mission”, p.21, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom is a delusion." Idealism says, "The voice that tells of bondage is but a dream." Vedanta says, "We are free and not free at the same time." That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side. The Self is beyond both freedom and bondage. We are Brahman, we are immortal knowledge beyond the senses, we are Bliss Absolute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Spiritual, Mean

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

• If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state. These states are always interchangeable. Eternal happiness and misery are a child's dream.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Children, Anger

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.411, Manonmani Publishers

• The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Inspiration, Ambition

  Swami Vivekananda (196?). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”

• Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by work. It is a question of knowledge! You must know what you are, and it is done. The dream vanishes. This you [and others] are dreaming here. When they die, they go to [the] heaven [of their dream]. They live in that dream, and [when it ends], they take a nice body [here], and they are good people.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Nice, Mean

  "Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/Breathing" by Swami Vivekananda,

• Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Giving Up, Pie

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.29, editionNEXT.com

• I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Hate, Book

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2027, Manonmani Publishers

• Say So'ham, So'ham whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly-that what we see never existed, that there is only I. Flash-the dream will break! Think day and night, this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Zero, Thinking

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