Atman Quotes - Page 2

• This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman).

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Self

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman—all is Atman! Give up the identification with the body, and stand up!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sex, Giving Up, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Roots, Tree, Soul

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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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Soul, Body

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

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• Stand up, be bold, be strong.
  Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders,
  and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Strength, Strong

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.159, Vivekananda Kendra

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• His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.

  Roger Zelazny

  Followers, Said

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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• Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

  Sophocles

  Self Reliance, Helping, Chance

  "Japan's Diplomacy: Ensuring Security and Prosperity". Speech by Taro Aso, Prime Minister of Japan, japan.kantei.go.jp. June 30, 2009.

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• There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

  Hermann Hesse

  Believe, Knowledge, Essence

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.18, Om Books International

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• Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Pain, Cat

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• You are the creator of your own destiny

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Destiny, Creator

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.159, Vivekananda Kendra

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• The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer, the being in the body who is working the body by means of the internal organ or the mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Mean, Mind

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

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• If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food-then only will the mind be strong.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Mind, Body

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

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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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  God, Spiritual, Real

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• Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

  Adi Shankara

  Passion, Ignorance, Self

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• Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body is only an inert instrument. And the Atman within is your real nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Real, Thinking

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• Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that very Jiva is the Atman, because all is Atman.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soul, Unity, Principles

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom.

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  Ram Dass

  Compassion, Joy, Soul

  "Grace is Here!". Interview with David Ulrich, creativeguide.com. 2013.

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• Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Spiritual, Reality

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• One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Ego, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2110, Manonmani Publishers

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• Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Changed, Conditions

  Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

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• Say - i am the Atman in which my lower ego has become merged for ever. Be perfect in this idea; and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: "Thou art That", "Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached!"

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Ideas, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (1976). “Awakened India”

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• We should learn to love everyone equally, because in essence we are all one, one Atman, one soul.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Essence, Soul

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “108 Quotes On Love”, p.87, M A Center

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• But foreign should not be defined in geographical terms. Then it would have no meaning except territorial or tribal patriotism. To me that alone is foreign which is foreign to truth, foreign to Atman.

  Ram Swarup

  Should, Term, Defined

  "How I Became a Hindu" by Sita Ram Goel, (Ch. 7), 1982.

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• The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing--I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself. I was seeking Atman, I was seeking Brahman, I was determined to dismember myself and tear away its layers of husk in order to find in its unknown innermost recess the kernel at the heart of those layers, the Atman, life, the divine principle, the ultimate. But in so doing, I was losing myself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Heart, Order, Siddhartha

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• Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not, does it? It is there, the same madcap - Atman - mad upon one idea, intent and intense.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Taken, Fighting, Years

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