Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Wealth

• When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face When I Asked God for Brain & Brawn He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve When I Asked God for Happiness He Showed Me Some Unhappy People When I Asked God for Wealth He Showed Me How to Work Hard When I Asked God for Favors He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard When I Asked God for Peace He Showed Me How to Help Others God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted He Gave Me Everything I Needed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hard Work, Helping Others, Opportunity

• Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Fields, Gone

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2087, Manonmani Publishers

• Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving, Secret, Vedas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1589, Manonmani Publishers

• Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Social Reform, India

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1073, Manonmani Publishers

• Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Lust, May, Awakening

  Swami Vivekananda (1976). “Awakened India”

• Think always: I am ever-pure, ever-knowing, and ever-free. How can I do anything evil? Can I ever be befooled like ordinary people with the insignificant charms of lust and wealth? Strengthen the mind with such thoughts. This will surely bring real good.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Thinking, Knowing

• Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Forget, Wealth

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1865, Manonmani Publishers

• Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Swami Vivekananda (1996). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social life, there is all that wealth can buy or power can bring, there is all that the senses can enjoy; and among all these various occupations of life and all this searching after something which can give yet a little more whetting to the cloyed senses - among all these, there is perhaps a little bit of religion. But here, in India, religion is the one and the only occupation of life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  World Religions, Giving, Occupation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1039, Manonmani Publishers

• It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward 'love' unselfishly for love's sake.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Love, Prayer, Children

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago”, p.12, editionNEXT.com

• What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Giving, Charity

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1880, Manonmani Publishers

• Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used to say, attachment for Kâma-Kânchana (sense-pleasure and wealth). In the perfect realisation of love, even the consciousness of one's own body does not exist. Also, the supreme Jnana is to realise the oneness everywhere, to see one's own self as the Self in everything. That too cannot come so long as there is the least consciousness of the ego (Aham).

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Oneness, Attachment

• Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Body, Wealth

• This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Health, Long, Wealth

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

• Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let all the wealth of the earth come to your feet, or let you be made the poorest on earth. Let death come this moment or hundreds of years hence. Swerve not from the path you have taken. All good thoughts are immortal and go to make Buddhas and Christs.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Taken, Years

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