Swami Vivekananda Quotes - Page 44

• My boat is nearing the calm harbour from which it is never more to be driven out. Glory, glory unto Mother! (Referring to the Divine Mother of the Universe.) I have no wish, no ambition now. Blessed be Mother! I am the servant of Ramakrishna. I am merely a machine. I know nothing else. Nor do I want to know.

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  Mother, Blessed, Ambition

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• The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

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  Mean, Race, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2014). “Raja Yoga”, p.11, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.

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  Marriage, Country, Husband

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.61, Advaita Ashrama

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• [The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

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  Wise, Desire, Selfishness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.432, Manonmani Publishers

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• You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is simply marvellous! Whatever it be, the book is the centre round which human allegiance gathers. Not one religion is living today but has a book. With all its rationalism and tall talk, humanity still clings to the books. In your country every attempt to start a religion without a book has failed. In India sects rise with great success, but within a few years they die down, because there is no book behind them. So in every other country.

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  Country, Book, Years

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• Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is the result of an old and excellent religious civilization. This evolution to a higher spiritual state is possible only through discipline and education.

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  Spiritual, Religious, Civilization

  Swami Vivekananda (1974). “Awakened India”

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• The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others, but take care they do not become a bondage.

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  Helping Others, Thinking, Care

  Swami Vivekananda (2001). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

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  Two, Life And Death, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.104, Advaita Ashrama

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• Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.

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  Ideas, Atoms, Misery

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.63, editionNEXT.com

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• You cannot take away one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. You cannot add to the universe one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. As such, evolution does not come out of zero; then, where does it come from? From previous involution.

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  Zero, Feet, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.110, editionNEXT.com

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• Work, my children, work with your whole heart and soul! That is the thing. Mind not the fruit of work. What if you go to hell working for others? That is worth more than to gain heaven by seeking your own salvation... Sri Ramakrishna came and gave his life for the world. I will also sacrifice my life.

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  Children, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.

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  Jesus, Giving Up, Heaven

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Prana, according to the Vedanta, is the principle of life. It is like ether, an omnipresent principle; and all motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana. It is greater than Akasha, and through it everything lives. Prana is in the mother, in the father, in the sister, in the teacher, Prana is the knower.

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  Mother, Teacher, Father

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.27, editionNEXT.com

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• We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end.

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  Ends, Form

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.168, Advaita Ashrama

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• Only man makes Karma.

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  Karma, Men, Human Beings

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.183, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart.

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  Book, Heart, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.168, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Do not blame any supernatural being, neither be hopeless and despondent, nor think we are in a place from which we can never escape unless someone comes and lends us a helping hand.

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  Thinking, Hands, Supernatural Beings

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.44, editionNEXT.com

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• We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.

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  Children, Husband, Hands

  Swami Vivekananda (2007). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Who can break the law? If I break this glass, it will fall down. If anyone succeeds in throwing one atom out of place, every other atom will go out of balance. . . . The law can never be broken. Each atom is kept in its place. Each is weighed and measured and fulfils its [purpose] and place. Through His command the winds blow, the sun shines. Through His rule the worlds are kept in place. Through His orders death is sporting upon the earth. Just think of two or three Gods having a wrestling match in this world! It cannot be.

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  Fall, Wrestling, Blow

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another."

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  Path, Krishna, Dies

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.429, Manonmani Publishers

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• Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!

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  Mother, Goes On, Glory

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• Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time universal. It is while realising our individual nature that we realise even our national and universal nature. Each is an infinite circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. By practice one can feel universal Selfhood which is the essence of Hinduism. He who sees in every being his own Self is a Pandita (sage).

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  Men, Practice, Circles

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• I am thoroughly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others. Give and take is the law; and if India wants to raise herself once more, it is absolutely necessary that she brings out her treasures and throws them broadcast among the nations of the earth, and in return be ready to receive what others have to give her. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, and hatred is death. We commenced to die the day we began to hate other races; and nothing can prevent our death unless we come back to expansion, which is life.

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  Hate, Love Is, Race

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1759, Manonmani Publishers

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• Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been barred and the infinite tide behind is struggling to express itself. These struggles and competitions are but the results of our ignorance, because we do not know the proper way to unlock the gate and let the water in. This infinite tide behind must express itself; it is the cause of all manifestation.

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  Struggle, Ignorance, Water

  Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.143, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God? What is the use of such a God? Throw such a God overboard into the Pacific Ocean. We do not want such a God!

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  Ocean, Use, Want

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