Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Unity

• The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Knowing, Unity

• There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no 'you' or 'me'; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence - God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soul, Unity, Infinite

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4798, Manonmani Publishers

• The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soul, Unity, Materials

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.90, editionNEXT.com

• The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah - it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Animal, Men, Diversity

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2154, Manonmani Publishers

• Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force is found of which all others are manifestations. So religion ceases to progress when unity is reached, which is the case with Hinduism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Unity, Progress, Elements

• All sectarian religions take for granted that all men are equal. This is not warranted by science. There is more difference between minds than between bodies. One fundamental doctrine of Hinduism is that all men are different, there being unity in variety. Even for a drunkard, there are some Mantras-even for a man going to a prostitute!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Differences, Unity

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

• This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all these contradictions, the Vedanta finds out that Unity. It says, "Give up what is evil and give up what is good." What remains then? Behind good and evil stands something which is yours, the real you, beyond every evil, and beyond every good too, and it is that which is manifesting itself as good and bad. Know that first, and then and then alone you will be a true optimist, and not before; for then you will be able to control everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Real, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.177, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that very Jiva is the Atman, because all is Atman.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soul, Unity, Principles

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• There is really no difference between matter, mind and Spirit. They are only different phases of experiencing the One.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Differences, Unity, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2234, Manonmani Publishers

• Unity in variety is the plan of the universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Justice, Diversity, Unity

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.53, SkyLight Paths Publishing

• In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is the mother of the universe. It was a female sage who first found the unity of God, and laid down this doctrine in one of the first hy mns of the Vedas. Our God is both personal and absolute, the absolute is male, the personal, female. And thus it comes that we now say: 'The first manifestation of God is the hand that rocks the cradle'.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Rocks, Hands

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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