Swami Vivekananda Quotes - Page 34

• Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only, meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigour in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Mind, Looks

  "Complete Works".

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• Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Names, Greed

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• Brave, bold people, these are what we want.

  Swami Vivekananda

  People, Brave, Want

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• The ignorant man never enjoys.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Ignorant, Enjoy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.954, Manonmani Publishers

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• Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Age, Firsts

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.413, Manonmani Publishers

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• Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft, and tyranny - pray day and night for them. I am no meta physician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor, I love the poor.... Let these people be your God - think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly - the Lord will show you the way.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Night, Thinking, People

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• Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal king, this Rama has been presented before us by the great sage Valmiki. No language can be purer, none chaster, none more beautiful, and at the same time simpler, than the language in which the great poet has depicted the life of Rama.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Kings, Husband

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1169, Manonmani Publishers

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• Every little bit, every atom inside the universe, is in a constant state of change and motion, but the universe as a whole is unchangeable, because motion or change is a relative thing; we can only think of something in motion in comparison with something which is not moving.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Moving, Thinking, Atoms

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.33, editionNEXT.com

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• We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving principles, not the hundreds of superstitions that we have been hugging to our breasts for centuries.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Mean, Giving

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1189, Manonmani Publishers

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• Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Book

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago”, p.15, editionNEXT.com

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• This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Track, Growth, Lines

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.94, editionNEXT.com

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• In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they are nil.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Two, Development, Kind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2599, Manonmani Publishers

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• Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hurt, Astrology, Attention

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3648, Manonmani Publishers

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• "You are pure and perfect, and what you call sin does not belong to you". Sins are low degrees of Self-manifestation; manifest your Self in a high degree.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Self, Perfect

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.736, Manonmani Publishers

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• Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run, attain to absolute freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Running, Long

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• Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Power, Men, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1190, Manonmani Publishers

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• Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Cutting, Care, Laziness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3102, Manonmani Publishers

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• God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Serving God

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.279, Advaita Ashrama

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• Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Roots, Desire, Four

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• Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian thought has flowed, and is still flowing into the veins of other nations of the globe, whether in a distinct or in some subtle unknown way. Perhaps to us belongs the major portion of the universal ancient inheritance.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Distance, Ocean, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1794, Manonmani Publishers

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• ...oneness is the secret to everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Oneness, Secret, Awareness

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• How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point; that is the secret.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Blow, Secret

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

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• We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Principles, Firsts, Facts

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.216, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving, Liberty, Ready

  Swami Vivekananda (1932). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfectly Good, Ideas, World

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

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