Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Slaves

• If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Men, Burning

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Acceptance, Long, Independence

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2199, Manonmani Publishers

• One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Passion, Joy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2384, Manonmani Publishers

• Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Meditation, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• 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”

• Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our slavery; so much so that we long to perpetuate it, and go on with "body" "body" for ever. Do not cling to the idea of "body", do not look for a future existence in any way like this one; do not love or want the body, even of those dear to us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Long, Hug

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

• We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Angel, Men, Heaven

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2581, Manonmani Publishers

• As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Men, Littles

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2253, Manonmani Publishers

• Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Slave, Hundred

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.41, Advaita Ashrama

• As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Slave, Masters

  Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.180, New World Library

• I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till I have finished it. And oh, how shall I speak of him? Oh, his love for me!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving, Done, His Love

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.236, Advaita Ashrama

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