Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Evil

• This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Thinking, Evil

• Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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

• In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Two, Life And Death, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.104, Advaita Ashrama

• For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna, for it comes as an open gate to heaven. But if you do not participate in this battle against evil, you will incur sin, violating your dharma and your honor.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, War, Evil

• If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Money, Men, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.7, editionNEXT.com

• Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of perseverance), and destruction of everything. (Narada Bhakti Sutra)

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Anger, Evil

• Think always: I am ever-pure, ever-knowing, and ever-free. How can I do anything evil? Can I ever be befooled like ordinary people with the insignificant charms of lust and wealth? Strengthen the mind with such thoughts. This will surely bring real good.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Thinking, Knowing

• This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, World, Mixtures

  Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.161, New World Library

• If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Inspiration, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

• It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Evil, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Selections from Swami Vivekananda”

• What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for name and fame and covers his efforts to obtain them with the enamel of charity and good works. He is working for himself under the pretext of working for others. Every so-called charity is an encouragement of the very evil it claims to operate against.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Encouragement, Names, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2593, Manonmani Publishers

• I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Blessed, Fate

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.650, Manonmani Publishers

• Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Reality, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1321, Manonmani Publishers

• The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Strength, Ignorance

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.72, editionNEXT.com

• The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Men, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

• Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying upon differences, and that all good comes from faith in equality, in the underlying sameness and oneness of things. This is the great Vedantic ideal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Ignorance, Differences

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1116, Manonmani Publishers

• It is clear to us that, for good or for evil, our vitality is concentrated in our religion. You cannot change it. You cannot destroy it and put in its place another.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Vitality, Importance

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1103, Manonmani Publishers

• The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Progress, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2100, Manonmani Publishers

• This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all these contradictions, the Vedanta finds out that Unity. It says, "Give up what is evil and give up what is good." What remains then? Behind good and evil stands something which is yours, the real you, beyond every evil, and beyond every good too, and it is that which is manifesting itself as good and bad. Know that first, and then and then alone you will be a true optimist, and not before; for then you will be able to control everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Real, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.177, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Law, Discipline, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3431, Manonmani Publishers

• The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or two things well with very little effort, having practiced them every day through generations.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Two, Discipline

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1872, Manonmani Publishers

• Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfection, Evil, Soul

• Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy, for anger is loss of energy to the man who displays it. You should not allow your minds to come into those brain-combinations of anger and hatred.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Loss, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.162, Vivekananda Kendra

• "Why should I become angry just because another man has made a fool of himself. Do thou resist not evil!" That is what the lovers of God say. Whatever the world does, wherever it goes, has no influence [on them].

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Men, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2561, Manonmani Publishers

• Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Giving Up, Anger

  Swami Vivekananda, (2013). “Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda”, p.39, Read Books Ltd

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