Swami Vivekananda Quotes - Page 39

• The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent? There is no reason why I should.[Source]
  The root of that degeneration is egotism - to think that one is just as great as any other, indeed!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Roots, Ego

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• As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong, he is himself all wrong. He does not know that upon the proof of all the others depends the proof of his own. Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. I do not mean the sentimental statement that all men are brothers, but that one must feel the oneness of human life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Brother, Mean, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.68, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Who shall blame whom, who praise whom? Whom to seek, whom to avoid? I seek none, nor avoid any, for I am all the universe. I praise myself, I blame myself, I suffer for myself, I am happy at my own will, I am free. This is the Jnâni, the brave and daring. Let the whole universe tumble down; he smiles and says it never existed, it was all a hallucination. He sees the universe tumble down. Where was it! Where has it gone!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Brave, Suffering, Gone

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)”, p.44, editionNEXT.com

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• What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Men, Weakness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1085, Manonmani Publishers

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• It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Heaven, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1316, Manonmani Publishers

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• All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Astrology, May

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.45, Advaita Ashrama

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• It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Zero, Giving Up, Sacrifice

  Swami Vivekananda “Lectures Vol. 4”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Business, Father, Son

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3702, Manonmani Publishers

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• Science and religion will meet and shake hands.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hands, Science And Religion, Shakes

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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• Perfection can be had by everybody.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfection

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3672, Manonmani Publishers

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• Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Pain, Deeds, Injury

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.175, Manonmani Publishers

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• Non-injuring has to be attained by him who would be free. No one is more powerful than he who has attained perfect non-injuring. No one could fight, no one could quarrel, in his presence. Yes, his very presence, and nothing else, means peace, means love wherever he may be. Nobody could be angry or fight in his presence. Even the animals, ferocious animals, would be peaceful before him.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Powerful, Mean, Fighting

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.193, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who knows Him becomes free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Animal, Men, Names

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• Perfection is one thing and enjoyment another; these two having different ends, engage men differently.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Two, Perfection

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.614, Manonmani Publishers

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• Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Form, Results, Combination

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.23, Advaita Ashrama

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• What is the use of talking of one's mistakes to the world? They cannot thereby be undone. For what one has done one must suffer; one must try and do better. The world sympathizes only with the strong and the powerful.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Powerful, Mistake

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, World, Mixtures

  Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.161, New World Library

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• The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Animal, Men, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.38, Advaita Ashrama

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• Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Creating, Use

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2681, Manonmani Publishers

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• When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Names, Needs, Body

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3110, Manonmani Publishers

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• There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Power, Long, Expansion

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1553, Manonmani Publishers

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• How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Tree, Leader

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• We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Ignorance, Clouds

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1752, Manonmani Publishers

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• They aimless halt, who halt for others.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Halt

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• Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of development in infinite ways....One glance of his gracious eyes can create a hundred thousand Vivekanandas at this instant. If he chooses now, instead, to work through me, making me his instrument, I can only bow to his will.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Eye, Ideas

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