Swami Vivekananda Quotes - Page 27

• Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as that.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Sleep, Giving

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1639, Manonmani Publishers

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• This is the only way to reach the goal, to tell ourselves, and to tell everybody else, that we are divine. And as we go on repeating this, strength comes. He who falters at first will get stronger and stronger, and the voice will increase in volume until the truth takes possession of our hearts, and courses through our veins, and permeates our bodies.

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  Strength, Heart, Voice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.650, Manonmani Publishers

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• Out of Mahat comes universal egoism.

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  Ego, Egoism, Universal

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.862, Manonmani Publishers

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• All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion - all these various forces resolve into that Prana, and the vibration of the Prana ceases. In that state it remains until the beginning of the next cycle. Prana then begins to vibrate, and that vibration acts upon the Akasha, and all these forms are thrown out in regular succession.

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  Feelings, Next, Vibrations

  Swami Vivekananda (2002). “Jnana-Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, Vedanta Press

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• We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that.

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  Principles, Fundamentals, Fundamental Principles

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3227, Manonmani Publishers

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• Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

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  Karma, Country, Yoga

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

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• Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature.

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  Men, Divine, Human Beings

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4460, Manonmani Publishers

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• Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of Man - the Atman.

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  God, Spiritual, Real

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• The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.

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  Self, Soul, Body

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.877, Manonmani Publishers

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• To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

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  Power, Goal

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• If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody to grope towards, no devil to lay our blame upon, no Personal God to carry our burdens, when we are alone responsible, then we shall rise to our highest and best. I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil.

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  Responsibility, Fate, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (1935). “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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• Whether dualistic, qualified monistic, or monistic, they all firmly believe that everything is in the soul itself; it has only to come out and manifest itself. Therefore, this shraddha is what I want, and what all of us here want, this faith in ourselves, and before you is the great task to get that faith. Give up the awful disease that is creeping, into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow.

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  Strong, Giving Up, Believe

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• What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you.

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  Forgiveness, Ideas, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1539, Manonmani Publishers

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• At the head of all these laws, in and through every particle of matter and force, stands One through whose command the wind blows, the fire burns, the clouds rain, and death stalks upon the earth. And what is His nature? He is everywhere the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All Merciful. Thou art our Father. Thou art our beloved Friend.

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  Art, Father, Rain

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.139, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates.

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  Heart, Action

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4660, Manonmani Publishers

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• Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I grow older that faith is becoming stronger and stronger. He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself

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  Faith, Atheist, Believe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

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• Not one atom can rest until it finds its freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Atoms

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3211, Manonmani Publishers

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• He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong.

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  Heart, Voice, Sage

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.65, Advaita Ashrama

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• The body is only a tool of the mind. What the mind dictates the body will have to obey. Now I do not even think of water. I do not miss it at all.... I see I can do anything.

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  Thinking, Water, Missing

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• Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Law, Differences, Religion

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1753, Manonmani Publishers

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• You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desires for name and fame.

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  Men, Names, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda (1926). “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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• Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

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  Patience, Perseverance, Fire

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1763, Manonmani Publishers

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• A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has stuck into the foot, another thorn is requisitioned, and when the thorn is taken out, both are thrown away. So the bad tendencies are to be counteracted by the good ones, but after that, the good tendencies have also to be conquered.

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  Taken, Iron, Feet

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2281, Manonmani Publishers

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• My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.

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  Divinity, Few Words, Movement

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.9, Advaita Ashrama

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• In these days of intellectual awakening and steadily asserting public opinion, the holy places of the Hindus, their condition, and method of work have not escaped tile keen eye of criticism; and this city, being the holy of holies to all Hindus, has not failed to attract its full share of censure.

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  Eye, Cities, Intellectual

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2404, Manonmani Publishers

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