Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Manifestation

• 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

• Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you can worship. God in His absolute nature is not to be worshipped. Worshipping such God would be nonsense. We have to worship Jesus Christ, the human manifestation, as God. You cannot worship anything higher than the manifestation of God. The sooner you give up the worship of God separate from Christ, the better for you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Giving Up, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

• All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sleep, Progress, Awakening

• In every man and in every animal, however weak or wicked, great or small, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in the soul, but in the manifestation. Between me and the smallest animal, the difference is only in manifestation, but as a principle he is the same as I am, he is my brother, he has the same soul as I have. This is the greatest principle that India has preached.

  Swami Vivekananda

  God, Brother, Animal

  "Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India".

• 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

• Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Different

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.557, Manonmani Publishers

• Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Men, Perfection

• The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mistake, Men, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.68, Advaita Ashrama

• Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been barred and the infinite tide behind is struggling to express itself. These struggles and competitions are but the results of our ignorance, because we do not know the proper way to unlock the gate and let the water in. This infinite tide behind must express itself; it is the cause of all manifestation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Ignorance, Water

  Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.143, Jazzybee Verlag

• You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side - you can only help. It is a manifestation from within; it develops its own nature - you can only take away obstructions.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Life, Children, Negative

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

• Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Power, World, Driving

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2623, Manonmani Publishers

• Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force is found of which all others are manifestations. So religion ceases to progress when unity is reached, which is the case with Hinduism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Unity, Progress, Elements

• Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Divinity, Individual, Born

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

• 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)

• In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfect, Balance, Decomposition

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.98, editionNEXT.com

• Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Vegetables, Years

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

• It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Power, Calm, Manifestation

  Swami Vivekananda (2011). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.10, Duncan Baird Publishers

• The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Worship, Manifestation, Absolutes

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Children, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.89, SkyLight Paths Publishing

• "You are pure and perfect, and what you call sin does not belong to you". Sins are low degrees of Self-manifestation; manifest your Self in a high degree.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Self, Perfect

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.736, Manonmani Publishers

• It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Quality, Manifestation, Highest

  Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.82, Jazzybee Verlag

• In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is the mother of the universe. It was a female sage who first found the unity of God, and laid down this doctrine in one of the first hy mns of the Vedas. Our God is both personal and absolute, the absolute is male, the personal, female. And thus it comes that we now say: 'The first manifestation of God is the hand that rocks the cradle'.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Rocks, Hands

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

• Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Little manifestations of energy through the muscles are called work. But where there is no thought, there will be no work. Fill the brain, therefore, with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Night, Thinking, Brain

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.546, Manonmani Publishers

• Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Becoming, Divinity

• The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Feet, Calm, Manifestation

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “The Vedanta Philosophy: Art of living”, p.32, editionNEXT.com

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