Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Reading

• Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Reading, Reality, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.968, Manonmani Publishers

• Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Book, Reading

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.52, Advaita Ashrama

• Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Rain, Book, Reading

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.920, Manonmani Publishers

• I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the stars, or anything of the sort. In many cases it is simply mind-reading. Sometimes wonderful predictions are made, but in many cases it is arrant trash.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Stars, Believe, Reading

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3648, Manonmani Publishers

• True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Teaching, Reading

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1596, Manonmani Publishers

• You nourish your minds by reading books. There is no good in doing that unless you hold it also as a sacrifice to the whole world. For the whole world is one; you are rated a very insignificant part of it, and therefore it is right for you that you should serve your millions of brothers rather than aggrandise this little self

  Swami Vivekananda

  Brother, Book, Reading

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1341, Manonmani Publishers

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