Swami Vivekananda Quotes - Page 42

• We want Shraddhâ, we want faith in our own selves. Strength is life, weakness is death. 'We are the Âtman, deathless and free; pure, pure by nature. Can we ever commit any sin? Impossible!' - such a faith is needed. Such a faith makes men of us, makes gods of us. It is by losing this idea of Shraddha that the country has gone to ruin.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Country, Men

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• Have faith. We will do

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Have Faith

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1912, Manonmani Publishers

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• A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Ocean, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.178, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• The vapour becomes snow, then water, then Ganga; but when it is vapour, there is no Ganga, and when it is water, we think of no vapour in it. The idea of creation or change is inseparably connected with will. So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3163, Manonmani Publishers

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• Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mercy, Killing, Purity

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2649, Manonmani Publishers

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• You will be nearer to Heaven through foot ball than through study of Gita.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Feet, Heaven, Balls

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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• Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Real

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1678, Manonmani Publishers

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• Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Air, India, Easy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1284, Manonmani Publishers

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• Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Law

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1412, Manonmani Publishers

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• In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, India, Form

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.251, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. Avoid all these. Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion. Is there any mystery in the Vedanta, or in the Vedas, or in the Samhitâs, or in the Puranas? What secret societies did the sages of yore establish to preach their religion? What sleight-of-hand tricks are there recorded as used by them to bring their grand truths to humanity?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Men, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda “Lectures Vol. 3”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1902, Manonmani Publishers

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• The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, Wave, Form

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

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• The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? Is it the fault of the merciful Father, whose wind of mercy is blowing without ceasing, day and night, whose mercy knows no decay, is it His fault that some of us are happy and some unhappy? We make our own destiny. His sun shines for the weak as well as for the strong. His wind blows for saint and sinner alike. He is the Lord of all, the Father of all, merciful, and impartial.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Father, Blow

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.671, Manonmani Publishers

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• The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change, Thinking, Names

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.25, Advaita Ashrama

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• These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faces, Facts, Sides

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.26, editionNEXT.com

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• External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Action, Internals, Humans

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3350, Manonmani Publishers

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• When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Ideas

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• It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Prana, Manifest

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

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• May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Son, Men, Coward

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3372, Manonmani Publishers

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• The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Analysis, Hinduism, Grammar

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2599, Manonmani Publishers

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• Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Shapes, Form, Eternal

  Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

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• Ours is the only religion that does not depend on a person or persons; it is based upon principles. At the same time there is room for millions of persons. There is ample ground for introducing persons, but each one of them must be an illustration of the principles. We must not forget that. These principles of our religion are all safe, and it should be the life-work of everyone of us to keep then safe, and to keep them free from the accumulating dirt and dust of ages.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Illustration, Dust, Age

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.213, editionNEXT.com

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• From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Power, Doors, Grass

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1869, Manonmani Publishers

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• Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Blessed, Land, Foundation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.57, editionNEXT.com

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