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“It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.”

Swami Vivekananda

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“If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.”

Swami Vivekananda

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“Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.”

Swami Vivekananda

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“As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.”

Swami Vivekananda

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“Strength is Life, Weakness is death.”

Swami Vivekananda

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“Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom—physical, mental, and spiritual—and help others to do so.”

Swami Vivekananda

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“Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.”

Swami Vivekananda

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“We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.”

Swami Vivekananda

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“Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?”

Swami Vivekananda

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“Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.”

Swami Vivekananda

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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.”

Swami Vivekananda

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“The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.”

Swami Vivekananda

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“Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.”

Swami Vivekananda

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“First get rid of the delusion “I am the body,” then only will we want real knowledge.”

Swami Vivekananda

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“The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence.”

Swami Vivekananda

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“India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.”

Swami Vivekananda

A few hours before his death, as quoted in Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Volume 14 (1963), p. 469

“The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom