Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Praise

• We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fate, Divinity, Blame

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.107, editionNEXT.com

• Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Names, Giving, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.61, Advaita Ashrama

• "None is good, save One, that is, God", as the Lord Jesus bath said. The rest are only tools in His hands. "Gloria in Excelsis", "Glory unto God in the highest", and unto men that deserve, but not to such an undeserving one like me. Here "the servant is not worthy of the hire"; and a Fakir, especially, has no right to any praise whatsoever, for would you praise your servant for simply doing his duty?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Men, Hands

• Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come or go wherever she wisheth, let death overtake him today or after a century, the wise man never swerves from the path of rectitude." Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Wise, Fall, Men

• Who shall blame whom, who praise whom? Whom to seek, whom to avoid? I seek none, nor avoid any, for I am all the universe. I praise myself, I blame myself, I suffer for myself, I am happy at my own will, I am free. This is the Jnâni, the brave and daring. Let the whole universe tumble down; he smiles and says it never existed, it was all a hallucination. He sees the universe tumble down. Where was it! Where has it gone!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Brave, Suffering, Gone

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)”, p.44, editionNEXT.com

• If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mind, Blame, Praise

  Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.126, New World Library

• It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Heaven, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1316, Manonmani Publishers

• Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let all the wealth of the earth come to your feet, or let you be made the poorest on earth. Let death come this moment or hundreds of years hence. Swerve not from the path you have taken. All good thoughts are immortal and go to make Buddhas and Christs.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Taken, Years

• Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heat, Blame, Cold

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

• We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Husband, Hands

  Swami Vivekananda (2007). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Wise, Caring, Lions

  Babaji Bob Kindler, Annapurna Sarada, Swami Vivekananda, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Kenneth Wapnick (2002). “Nectar #7: The Excellence of Sacrifice and Self-Effort”, p.24, Sarada Ramakrishna Vivekananda Associations

• When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here to work, and will have to leave all when the call comes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Lasts, Blame, Moments

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2294, Manonmani Publishers

• Where is fate and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none else has the praise. We make our own destiny.
  The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian.
  Each must assimilate the spirit of other religion and yet preserve his individuality and follow his own law of growth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Christian, Buddhist, Fate

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