Swami Vivekananda Quotes - Page 31

• Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying upon differences, and that all good comes from faith in equality, in the underlying sameness and oneness of things. This is the great Vedantic ideal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Ignorance, Differences

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1116, Manonmani Publishers

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• Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Boat, Shore

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• The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Water, Balance, Holiness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.28, Advaita Ashrama

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• Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Health, Silence, Sorrow

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4574, Manonmani Publishers

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• If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Night, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1277, Manonmani Publishers

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• If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Gratitude, Book

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The Lord God is its Governor and Maintainer, and in spite of these wine fanatics and cigar fanatics, and all sorts of marriage fanatics, it would go on. If all these persons were to die, it would go on none the worse.

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  Wine, Goes On, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2203, Manonmani Publishers

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• Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Names, Ideas, Clay

  Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

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• If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Money, Men, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.7, editionNEXT.com

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• A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Attachment, Rags

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• I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hate, Political, Coward

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2060, Manonmani Publishers

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• There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real "you." All the gods are little beings to you, all the ideas of God and Father in heaven are but your own reflection. God Himself is your image. “God created man after His own image." That is wrong. Man creates God after his own image. That is right. Throughout the universe we are creating gods after our own image. We create the god and fall down at his feet and worship him; and when this dream comes, we love it !

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  Dream, Father, Real

  "The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda".

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• Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

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  Happiness, Inner Peace, Different

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.557, Manonmani Publishers

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• Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in the practice of self-control.

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  Men, Self, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.89, Manonmani Publishers

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• The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hinduism, Subjective

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2600, Manonmani Publishers

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• This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.

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  World, Delusion

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.207, Advaita Ashrama

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• 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.

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  Faith, Strong, Giving Up

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1227, Manonmani Publishers

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• What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one of us. God sitting up on a cloud! Think of the utter blasphemy of it! It is materialism - downright materialism. When babies think this way, it may be all right, but when grown - up men try to teach such things, it is downright disgusting - that is what it is. It is all matter, all body idea, the gross idea, the sense idea. Every bit of it is clay and nothing but clay. Is that religion?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Baby, Men, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3594, Manonmani Publishers

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• Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Misery, Materialism

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.209, editionNEXT.com

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• We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

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  Like Love, Coward, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2382, Manonmani Publishers

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• All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute; all truth in the universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Discipline, Purification

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.377, Manonmani Publishers

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• To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Chains That Bind, Spirit

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Too early religious advancement of the Hindus and that superfineness in everything which made them cling to higher alternatives, have reduced them to what they are. The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Advancement, Alternatives

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

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• You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Past, Hands

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Essentials of Hinduism”, p.16, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Light, Giving, Forever

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3994, Manonmani Publishers

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