Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Yoga

• The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Yoga, Attachment, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

• The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Yoga, Secret

• Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to the cloud of virtue." He sees God. He becomes God and helps others to become the same. This is all I have to preach. Doctrines have been expounded enough. There are books by the million. Oh, for an ounce of practice!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Lying, Father, Yoga

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3828, Manonmani Publishers

• Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In spirituality, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you. Have nothing to do with it. Mystery-mongering weakens the human brain. It has well-nigh destroyed Yoga, one of the grandest of sciences

  Swami Vivekananda

  Yoga, Brain, Secret

• Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Yoga, Practice, Bliss

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

• In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Real, Yoga

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion”, p.51, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Yoga, Helping Others, Giving

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1062, Manonmani Publishers

• Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if I can rouse my countrymen, immersed in tamas, to stand on their own feet and be men inspired with the spirit of karma-yoga. I am a follower only of he or she who serves and helps others without caring for his own bhakti and mukti!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Yoga, Caring

• Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Country, Yoga

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

• Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for which one is best suited. But in this age, special stress should be laid on karma yoga.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Spiritual, Stress

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