Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Meditation

• The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Mind

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

• All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.34, Manonmani Publishers

• "I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Meditation, Done, Want

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1650, Manonmani Publishers

• When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Ideas

• Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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

• "Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Practice

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda".

• Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

• The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Inspiration

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

• The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Thinking, Forget Everything

  "Meditation and Its Methods".

• There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

• Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Attitude, Inspiration, Attachment

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2206, Manonmani Publishers

• Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Meditation, Pieces, Friction

  Swami Vivekananda, (2013). “Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda”, p.59, Read Books Ltd

• The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Silence

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.39, Manonmani Publishers

• The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Meditation, Helping

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

• We do not depend upon any external help in meditation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Meditation, Helping, Depends

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

• Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Meditation, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Prayer, Thinking, Meditation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4515, Manonmani Publishers

• Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Blood, Meditation, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.448, Manonmani Publishers

• Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Meditation, Unification

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2579, Manonmani Publishers

• To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation-renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Cutting, Ideas, Chains That Bind

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

• 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

• Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as that.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Sleep, Giving

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1639, Manonmani Publishers

• First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Knowing, Meditation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2579, Manonmani Publishers

• Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Imagination, Meditation, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1638, Manonmani Publishers

• Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Meditation, Mind

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