Swami Vivekananda Quotes - Page 20

• There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Body, Weak, Harm

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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• Every atom is trying to go and join itself to the next atom. Atoms after atoms combine, making huge balls, the earths, the suns, the moons, the stars, the planets. They in their turn, are trying to rush towards each other, and at last, we know that the whole universe, mental and material, will be fused into one.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Stars, Moon, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2496, Manonmani Publishers

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• The earth is enjoyed by heroes

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hero, Earth, Enjoyed

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.47, Advaita Ashrama

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• The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Glasses, Heaven, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.448, Manonmani Publishers

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• Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused by ourselves, and none else in the universe is to blame. God is the least to blame for it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Suffering, Misery

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

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• Meditate upon the Om that is in the heart.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart

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• Whether dualistic, qualified monistic, or monistic, they all firmly believe that everything is in the soul itself; it has only to come out and manifest itself. Therefore, this shraddha is what I want, and what all of us here want, this faith in ourselves, and before you is the great task to get that faith. Give up the awful disease that is creeping, into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Giving Up, Believe

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• The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Littles, West, Spirituality

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2608, Manonmani Publishers

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• If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Power, Action, Manifest

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2838, Manonmani Publishers

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• What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heaven, Earth, Gains

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mind, Floating, May

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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• The Absolute can never be thought of.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Absolutes

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• Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Perfect, Realising

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3490, Manonmani Publishers

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• 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

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• Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sacrifice, Self, Law

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2567, Manonmani Publishers

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• Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and be. I would not be exactly like Jesus. It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Struggle, Unnecessary

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.438, Manonmani Publishers

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• In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Rising Up, Ego, Cobras

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2644, Manonmani Publishers

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• We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our karma, and it naturally flows that, having been ourselves the makers of our karma, we must also be able to unmake it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Fate, Able

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• We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Believe, Blessed

  Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

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• One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Errors, Differences, Hinduism

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2597, Manonmani Publishers

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• There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart. None but men of great renunciation, none but mighty giants among men, have a right to that Love Divine. If that highest ideal of love is held out to the masses, it will indirectly tend to stimulate its worldly which dominates the heart of man- for, meditating on love to God by thinking of oneself as His wife or beloved, one would very likely be thinking most of the time of one's own wife- the result is too obvious to point out.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Love Is, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.125, Vivekananda Kendra

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• 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

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• The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Body, Drag, Human Body

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com

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• Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Self, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.37, Advaita Ashrama

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• Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Men, Past

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.62, editionNEXT.com

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