Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Children

• It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children of such a country.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Children, Land

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1196, Manonmani Publishers

• Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Heart, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.41, Advaita Ashrama

• Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Children, Lying

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

• You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; you are not matter, you are not bodies; matter is your servant,not you the servant of matter.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Sheep, Perfect

  Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.39, New World Library

• You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgiveness, Mother, Children

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3536, Manonmani Publishers

• Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing to have, earn it, says Krishna; struggle hard to get money, but don't get attached to it. So with children, with wife, husband, relatives, fame, everything; you have no need to shun them, only don't get attached. There is only one attachment and that belongs to the Lord, and to none other.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Husband, Struggle

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

• Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Social Reform, India

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1073, Manonmani Publishers

• You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side - you can only help. It is a manifestation from within; it develops its own nature - you can only take away obstructions.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Life, Children, Negative

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

• But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There I want to work out this idea about which I have spoken to you today. There are an Englishman and an Englishwoman in charge of the place. The purpose is to train seekers of truth and to bring up children without fear and without superstition. They shall not hear about Christs and Buddhas and Shivas and Vishnus - none of these.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Children, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Girl, Country

• Children of those ancient Aryans, through the grace of the Lord may you have the same pride, may that faith in your ancestors come into your blood, may it become a part and parcel of your lives, may it work towards the salvation of the world!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Faith, Children

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1271, Manonmani Publishers

• . . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Children

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2075, Manonmani Publishers

• The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if it does so; the difference lies in the way in which it is used.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Lying, Fire

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion”, p.55, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward 'love' unselfishly for love's sake.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Love, Prayer, Children

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago”, p.12, editionNEXT.com

• Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Dream, Jesus

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.30, editionNEXT.com

• . . . If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2013, Manonmani Publishers

• 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)

• If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state. These states are always interchangeable. Eternal happiness and misery are a child's dream.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Children, Anger

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.411, Manonmani Publishers

• 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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Husband, Hands

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

• Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

• Business is business, no child's play.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Business, Play

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2862, Manonmani Publishers

• I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must be a giant- must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause- if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Lying, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

• We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Children, Son

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.120, Advaita Ashrama

• These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every soul, irrespective of nation, country, or position.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Children, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2011). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.56, Duncan Baird Publishers

You May Also Like:

Ramakrishna

Mahatma Gandhi

Rabindranath Tagore

Subhas Chandra Bose

Abdul Kalam

Sarada Devi

Sri Aurobindo