Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Suffering

• If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Joy, Suffering

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.205, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Suffering, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.108, editionNEXT.com

• 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

• This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Suffering, Misery, Undone

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.159, Vivekananda Kendra

• To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere, let them read, let them become familiar with the great principles underlying these ideas, and it is ninety-nine to one that the charm will come over them, and fascination will be the result. Slow and silent, as the gentle dew that falls in the morning, unseen and unheard yet producing a most tremendous result, has been the work of the calm, patient, all-suffering spiritual race upon the world of thought.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Morning, Philosophy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1041, Manonmani Publishers

• It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Suffering, Faults, Reap

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.361, Manonmani Publishers

• We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Suffering, Faults

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2540, Manonmani Publishers

• Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Mind, Suffering

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4554, Manonmani Publishers

• Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Suffering, Mud

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.389, editionNEXT.com

• Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run, attain to absolute freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Running, Long

• Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused by ourselves, and none else in the universe is to blame. God is the least to blame for it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Suffering, Misery

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

• When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Suffering, Blame

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.292, Manonmani Publishers

• Who shall blame whom, who praise whom? Whom to seek, whom to avoid? I seek none, nor avoid any, for I am all the universe. I praise myself, I blame myself, I suffer for myself, I am happy at my own will, I am free. This is the Jnâni, the brave and daring. Let the whole universe tumble down; he smiles and says it never existed, it was all a hallucination. He sees the universe tumble down. Where was it! Where has it gone!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Brave, Suffering, Gone

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)”, p.44, editionNEXT.com

• Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Cat, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1975). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgiveness, Mother, Forgiving

  Swami Vivekananda (1968). “Awakened India”

• 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

• We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Suffering, Causes, Responsible

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.31, editionNEXT.com

• Say So'ham, So'ham whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly-that what we see never existed, that there is only I. Flash-the dream will break! Think day and night, this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Zero, Thinking

• Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Pain, Cat

• What is the use of talking of one's mistakes to the world? They cannot thereby be undone. For what one has done one must suffer; one must try and do better. The world sympathizes only with the strong and the powerful.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Powerful, Mistake

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

• Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not, does it? It is there, the same madcap - Atman - mad upon one idea, intent and intense.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Taken, Fighting, Years

• You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Eye, Dark, Light

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.108, Advaita Ashrama

• May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls-and, above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Race, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2114, Manonmani Publishers

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