Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Philosophy

• When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Soul, Want

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.81, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Book, Psychics

  Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.120, Jazzybee Verlag

• The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Knowing, Unity

• Poetry and philosophy will become friends.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

• Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of religion, it should be as Jesus says, "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Philosophy, Real

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.39, editionNEXT.com

• From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Philosophy

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Essentials of Hinduism”, p.23, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Men, Matter

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2171, Manonmani Publishers

• To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere, let them read, let them become familiar with the great principles underlying these ideas, and it is ninety-nine to one that the charm will come over them, and fascination will be the result. Slow and silent, as the gentle dew that falls in the morning, unseen and unheard yet producing a most tremendous result, has been the work of the calm, patient, all-suffering spiritual race upon the world of thought.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Morning, Philosophy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1041, Manonmani Publishers

• As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that the worshippers are really worshipping, whether in the temple, in the image, or in the temple of their own bodies. First know for certain what they are doing - which more than ninety per cent of the revilers are thoroughly ignorant of - and then it will explain itself in the light of the Vedantic philosophy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Light, Ignorant

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1740, Manonmani Publishers

• Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Joy, Never Change

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.72, editionNEXT.com

• Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced school of Western theologians. The student of Sanskrit philosophy knows where the wind is blowing from, but it matters not whence the power comes so longs as it brings new life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, School, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1743, Manonmani Publishers

• According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Men, Self

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.168, Advaita Ashrama

• Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Men, Vedanta

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.136, editionNEXT.com

• I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India, there runs a mutual and cordial string of eternal faith in the perfection of humanity, and I believe in it myself. And let that faith be spread over the whole land.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Running, Philosophy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.408, editionNEXT.com

• We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Heart, Giving

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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