Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Sorrow

• In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Two, Life And Death, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.104, Advaita Ashrama

• In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not known the wonderful enjoyment, the blessing of chastity, the happiness of having a chaste, virtuous wife, or a chaste, virtuous husband. These people cannot feel that. And similarly they do not feel the intense jealousy of the chaste wife or husband, or the misery caused by unfaithfulness on either side, with all the heart-burnings and sorrows which believers in chastity experience. On one side, the latter gain happiness, but on the other, they suffer misery too.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Husband, Heart

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.630, Manonmani Publishers

• Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ignorance, Sorrow, Weakness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.347, Manonmani Publishers

• Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Happiness, Men, Inner Peace

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

• It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable because we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we are weak. We die because we are weak. Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death nor sorrow. We are miserable through delusion. Give up the delusion and the whole thing vanishes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Giving Up, Lying

• Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Health, Silence, Sorrow

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4574, Manonmani Publishers

• Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Sorrow, Senses

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

• Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Evil, Joy

  Swami Vivekananda (1965). “Awakened India”

• Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure another set. Those that tell us that there is sin and sorrow and death in the world are terrible. But the other set - thou art holy, there is God, there is no pain - these are good, and help to break the bondage of the others. The highest imagination that can break all the links of the chain is that of the Personal God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Pain, Imagination

  Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Laughter, People

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.9, editionNEXT.com

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