Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Sacrifice

• To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that is vibrant and valiant; a Buddhistic heart overflowing with compassion and kindness and Christian limbs of service and sacrifice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Christian, Kindness, Islamic

• Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be chaste and pure! ... There is no other way. Did Christ find any other way?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.473, 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

• It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Zero, Giving Up, Sacrifice

  Swami Vivekananda “Lectures Vol. 4”, Jazzybee Verlag

• Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sacrifice, Self, Law

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2567, Manonmani Publishers

• Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct, all ideality will be extinct; and in its place will reign the duality of lust and luxury as the male and female deities, with money as its priest, fraud, force, and competition its ceremonies, and the human soul its sacrifice. Such a thing can never be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sweet, Sacrifice, Luxury

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1744, Manonmani Publishers

• We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Sacrifice, Light

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.268, Advaita Ashrama

• Work, my children, work with your whole heart and soul! That is the thing. Mind not the fruit of work. What if you go to hell working for others? That is worth more than to gain heaven by seeking your own salvation... Sri Ramakrishna came and gave his life for the world. I will also sacrifice my life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Heart, Sacrifice

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