Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Mothers

• Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Deeds, Have Faith

  Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgiveness, Mother, Children

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3536, Manonmani Publishers

• I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Indebted

• For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds. This is the only god that is awake, our own race - "everywhere his hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers everything." All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the Virât? When we have worshiped this, we shall be able to worship all other gods.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Mother, Sleep

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.263, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• Prana, according to the Vedanta, is the principle of life. It is like ether, an omnipresent principle; and all motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana. It is greater than Akasha, and through it everything lives. Prana is in the mother, in the father, in the sister, in the teacher, Prana is the knower.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.27, editionNEXT.com

• The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Principles, Ears

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “My Life and Mission”, p.17, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome; if happiness comes, welcome. Then, when we come up to this love, all crooked things shall be straight. There will be the same sight for the Brahmin, the Pariah, and the dog. Until we love the universe with samesightedness, with impartial, undying love, we are missing again and again. But then all will have vanished, and we shall see in all the same infinite eternal Mother.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Dog, Sight

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2644, Manonmani Publishers

• Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Dream, Jesus

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.30, editionNEXT.com

• Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Mind, Coward

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

• He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. "Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou art our beloved friend, Thou art the source of all strength; give us strength. Thou art He that beareth the burdens of the universe; help me bear the little burden of this life." Thus sang the Rishis of the Vedas. And how to worship Him? Through love. "He is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Art, Father

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago”, p.12, editionNEXT.com

• With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga. . . . On the other side of the Ganga a big plot of land will be acquired, where unmarried girls or Brahmacharini widows will live; devout married women will also be allowed to stay now and then. Men will have no concern with this Math.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Girl, Mother, Inspiration

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda". Book by Swami Vivekananda, Volume 7, Conversations And Dialogues,

• One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Mean, India

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.20, Advaita Ashrama

• The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgiveness, Mother, Forgiving

  Swami Vivekananda (1968). “Awakened India”

• The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Sea, Calm

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3124, Manonmani Publishers

• There must be no fear, no begging, but demanding - demanding the Highest. The true devotees of the Mother are as hard, as adamant and as fearless as lions. They are not in the least upset if the whole universe suddenly crumbles into dust at their feet. Make Her listen to you. None of that cringing to Mother! Remember, She is all-powerful; She can make heroes out of stones.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Powerful, Hero

• Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Nerves, Fine

• It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the Vedanta declares that one and the same conscious Self is present in all beings. You always criticize the women, but say what have you done for their uplift? Writing down Smritis etc., and binding them by hard rules, the men have turned the women into manufacturing machines! If you do not raise the women, who are living embodiment of the Divine Mother, don’t think that you have any other way to rise.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Country, Mother

• My boat is nearing the calm harbour from which it is never more to be driven out. Glory, glory unto Mother! (Referring to the Divine Mother of the Universe.) I have no wish, no ambition now. Blessed be Mother! I am the servant of Ramakrishna. I am merely a machine. I know nothing else. Nor do I want to know.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Blessed, Ambition

• 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”

• Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Goes On, Glory

• Hinduism is the mother of all religions

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Hinduism

• Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power. Now they are vanishing and I drift. I come, Mother, I come, in Thy warm bosom, floating wheresoever Thou takest me, in the voiceless, in the strange, in the wonderland, I come - a spectator, no more an actor.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Ambition, Personality

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3000, Manonmani Publishers

• Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Evil, Joy

  Swami Vivekananda (1965). “Awakened India”

• Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Mother, Pain

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3005, Manonmani Publishers

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