Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Sleep

• All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sleep, Progress, Awakening

• For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds. This is the only god that is awake, our own race - "everywhere his hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers everything." All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the Virât? When we have worshiped this, we shall be able to worship all other gods.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Mother, Sleep

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.263, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest sleep. Just those few moments in meditation your brain has almost stopped. ... You forget the body. ... You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sleep, Jumping, Light

• Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as that.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Sleep, Giving

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1639, Manonmani Publishers

• Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Believe, Sleep

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3026, Manonmani Publishers

• Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Sleep, Burning

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.60, editionNEXT.com

• There are men who practice Titiksha, and succeed in it. There are men who sleep on the banks of the Ganga in the midsummer sun of India, and in winter float in the waters of the Ganga for a whole day; they do not care. Men sit in the snow of the Himalayas, and do not care to wear any garment. What is heat? What is cold? Let things come and go, what is that to me, I am not the body.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sleep, Winter, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.951, Manonmani Publishers

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