Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Teachers

• You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

• You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Teaching, Boys

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

• Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, May, Reason

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.171, Manonmani Publishers

• The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Principles, Teach

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.406, Manonmani Publishers

• There is no other teacher but your own soul.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Teacher, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

• The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Boys, Leader

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3000, Manonmani Publishers

• Only love for the Supreme Lord is true Bhakti. Love for any other being, however great, is not Bhakti. The "Supreme Lord" here means Ishvara, the concept of which transcends what you in the West mean by the personal God. "He from whom this universe proceeds, in whom it rests, and to whom it returns, He is Ishvara, the Eternal, the Pure, the All-Merciful, the Almighty, the Ever-Free, the All-Knowing, the Teacher of all teachers, the Lord who of His own nature is inexpressible Love."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Mean, Knowing

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3193, Manonmani Publishers

• No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Teacher, Suggestions

• A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Son, Needs

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2840, Manonmani Publishers

• If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for some less - the weaker should be given more chance than the strong. In other words, a Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten. For greater help must be given to him whom nature has not endowed with an acute intellect from birth. It is a madman who carries coals to Newcastle. The poor, the downtrodden, the ignorant, let these be your God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Strong, Son

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2840, Manonmani Publishers

• Prana, according to the Vedanta, is the principle of life. It is like ether, an omnipresent principle; and all motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana. It is greater than Akasha, and through it everything lives. Prana is in the mother, in the father, in the sister, in the teacher, Prana is the knower.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.27, editionNEXT.com

• If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Gratitude, Book

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Love Is, Self

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1858, Manonmani Publishers

• Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Pain, Mistake

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.4, Advaita Ashrama

• Experience is the only teacher we have.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.52, Advaita Ashrama

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