Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Growth

• It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify youreslf, and the world is bound to be purified.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Growth, World, Subjects

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.28, Advaita Ashrama

• Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Growth

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

• Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Buddhism, Growth, Branches

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2613, Manonmani Publishers

• Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Growth, Remember, Life Is

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1978, Manonmani Publishers

• All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Growth, Progress, Degradation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3533, Manonmani Publishers

• Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Growth, Mind, Importance

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1125, Manonmani Publishers

• This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Track, Growth, Lines

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.94, editionNEXT.com

• 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

• Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Lying, Growth, Realization

  Swami Vivekananda (2001). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Growth, Superiors

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.445, Manonmani Publishers

• Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Personality, Growth, Too Much

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Law, Growth, Decay

  Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.12, New World Library

• Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Work Out, Growth

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1161, Manonmani Publishers

• Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body under every bondage, and society did not grow. The opposite is the case in the West - every liberty to society, none to religion. Now are falling off the shackles from the feet of Eastern society as from those of Western religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fall, Feet, Opposites

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1992, Manonmani Publishers

• Where is fate and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none else has the praise. We make our own destiny.
  The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian.
  Each must assimilate the spirit of other religion and yet preserve his individuality and follow his own law of growth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Christian, Buddhist, Fate

• Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else. Let us put forth all our energies to acquire that which never fails-our spiritual perfection. If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Mistake, Struggle

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com

• The sign of life is strength and growth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Growth, Life Is, Signs Of Life

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

• Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. Everyone must work out his own salvation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Work Out, Brave

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Gita III" by Swami Vivekananda, May 29, 1900.

• Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Race, Growth

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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