Swami Vivekananda Quotes - Page 37

• 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

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• As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sea, Water, Different

  "Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God".

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• We must get out of materialism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Materialism

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Is Vedanta The Future Religion?”, p.14, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, Humans, Human Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2250, Manonmani Publishers

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• The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Principles, Teach

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.406, Manonmani Publishers

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• Where God is, there is no other. Where world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Light, Two, Darkness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1647, Manonmani Publishers

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• It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable because we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we are weak. We die because we are weak. Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death nor sorrow. We are miserable through delusion. Give up the delusion and the whole thing vanishes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Giving Up, Lying

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• Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn't it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he can become God? Yes. But the poor pig does not think so at the time. Which state is my individuality? When I was a baby sprawling on the floor trying to swallow my thumb? Was that the individuality I should be sorry to lose? Fifty years hence I shall look upon this present state and laugh, just as I now look upon the baby state. Which of these individualities shall I keep?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Baby, Sorry, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.114, editionNEXT.com

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• Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Three, Generations

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• So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God - forms or symbols, names, God-men. All religions have these, but you find that they want to fight with each other...These are the external forms of devotion, through which man has to pass; but if he is sincere, if he really wants to reach the truth, he goes higher than these, to a plane where forms are as nothing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fighting, Men, Names

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Vol. 2". Book by Swami Vivekananda, p. 42, 1963.

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• Say it with pride we are Hindus

  Swami Vivekananda

  Pride

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• One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Ego, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2110, Manonmani Publishers

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• In a difficulty in the company of the central and the instigator, be successful your central.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Successful, Instigators, Difficulty

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• I am proud to call myself a Hindu, I am proud that I am one of your unworthy servants. I am proud that I am a countryman of yours, you the descendants of the sages, you the descendants of the most glorious Rishis the world ever saw. Therefore have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Proud, Saws

  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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• Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Brahman, Approach

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.128, editionNEXT.com

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• To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Mind, Importance

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.83, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fearless, Renunciation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4632, Manonmani Publishers

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• "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Can we see God? Of course not. Can we know God? Of course not. If God can be known, He will be God no longer. Knowledge is limitation. But I and my Father are one: I find the reality in my soul. These ideas are expressed in some religions, and in others only hinted. In some they were expatriated. Christ's teachings are now very little understood in this country. If you will excuse me, I will say that they have never been very well understood.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Jesus, Father

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.296, Manonmani Publishers

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• If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Ambition, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2938, Manonmani Publishers

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• That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God, that intense faith in the immortal soul, is in you. I challenge anyone to give it up. You cannot. You may try to impose upon me by becoming materialists, by talking materialism for a few months, but I know what you are; if I take you by the hand, back you come as good theists as ever were born. How can you change your nature?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hands, Talking, Giving

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• My bones are destined to make corals in the Ganga.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Bones, Destined

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.288, Advaita Ashrama

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• How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Progress, Spread

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

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• Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny. Pray day and night for them. I care more to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Night, Care

  Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.224, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come to a state when the ego will vanish and in its place the Lord will come in. Then you will be able to say with justice "Thou, Lord, art guarding all my actions from within." But, my friend, if the ego occupies all the space within your heart, where forsooth will there be room enough for the Lord to come in? The Lord is verily absent!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Space, Long

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• Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I talk to you now is as rigorous in causation as that you listen to me. There is no freedom until you go beyond Maya. That is the real freedom of the soul.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Soul, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.948, Manonmani Publishers

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