Swami Vivekananda Quotes - Page 12

• Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Law, India, Study

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “The Vedanta Philosophy: Art of living”, p.41, editionNEXT.com

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• The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change, Clouds, Sky

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)”, p.42, editionNEXT.com

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• "I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Meditation, Done, Want

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1650, Manonmani Publishers

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• Do not say, ‘You are bad’; say only, ‘You are good’, but be better!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3117, Manonmani Publishers

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• Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Foundation, Spirit, Worship

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Men, Burning

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

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• Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Self, Consciousness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.19, editionNEXT.com

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• . . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Children

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2075, Manonmani Publishers

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• Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery? When you have the human body, then rouse the Atman within and say-I have reached the state of fearlessness!...and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: 'Thou art That', 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Art, Hero

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Freedom, Thinking, Goal

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.878, Manonmani Publishers

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• Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Rain, Book, Reading

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.920, Manonmani Publishers

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• No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Health, Negative, Want

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2788, Manonmani Publishers

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• When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Difficult Situations, Faces, Difficult

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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• The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mind, Body, Divinity

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

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• Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Soul, Impossible

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

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• Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Human Beings

  Swami Vivekananda (2014). “Raja Yoga”, p.32, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Humanity, Weakness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1321, Manonmani Publishers

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• Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Poison, Weak

  Swami Vivekananda (1904). “From Colombo to Almora: Being a Record of Swami Vivekananda's Return to India After His Mission to the West. Includes Reports of His Lectures and Replies to Addresses”

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• When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Soul, Want

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.81, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• 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

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• Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind...what we sow is what we reap.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Energy, Return, Action

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• 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

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• The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for it comes from God. A pure and strong will is omnipotent.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Everything Must Go, Pure

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• 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

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• Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Rocks, Self

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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