Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Imperfection

• So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.130, editionNEXT.com

• The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfection, Soul, Vedas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.17, Advaita Ashrama

• When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)”, p.58, editionNEXT.com

• The Trinitarian Christ is elevated above us; the Unitarian Christ is merely a moral man; neither can help us. The Christ who is the Incarnation of God, who has not forgotten His divinity, that Christ can help us, in Him there is no imperfection.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Men, Imperfection

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3095, Manonmani Publishers

• We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Optimistic, Optimism, Imperfection

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1595, Manonmani Publishers

• The soul has neither sex, nor caste nor imperfection.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sex, Imperfection, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1752, Manonmani Publishers

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