Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Mankind

• The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Goal, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (1993). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Love, May, Born Again

• Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen hundred years men have not understood that saying. They make Christ the saviour of men. He is God and we are worms!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Father, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

• We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Vedas, Done, Want

  Swami Vivekananda (1994). “Swami Vivekananda, a Hundred Years Since Chicago: A Commemorative Volume”

• “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” This sentence alone would save mankind, if all books and prophets were lost. This purity of heart will bring the vision of God. It is the theme of the whole music of this universe. In purity is no bondage. Remove the veils of ignorance by purity; then we manifest ourselves as we really are and know that we were never in bondage. The seeing of 'many' is the great sin of all the world. See all as Self and love all; let all idea of separateness go.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Book, Blessed

  "Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda".

• 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

• Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Expression, Oneness, Religion

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2974, Manonmani Publishers

• The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Animal, Men, Charity

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.85, SkyLight Paths Publishing

• There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Ideas, Age

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.31, Advaita Ashrama

• My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Divinity, Few Words, Movement

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.9, Advaita Ashrama

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