Swami Vivekananda: Trending quotes (page 13)

“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

Pearls of Wisdom

Religion , Law , Business

“Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“If all India stands up and takes all the mud that is at the bottom of the Indian Ocean and throws it up against the Western countries, it will not be doing an infinitesimal part of that which you are doing to us.”

Swami Vivekananda

Hindus and Christians http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_8/notes_of_class_talks_and_lectures/hindus_and_christians.htm (Detroit, February 21, 1894) Quoted from Goel, S. R. (1996). History of Hindu-Christian encounters, AD 304 to 1996. Ch. 13

Parting , Country

“I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

Universe

“In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“Death is better than a vegetating ignorant life; it is better to die on the battle-field than to live a life of defeat.”

Swami Vivekananda

Call to the Nation

Life , Death

“Strength is the sign of vigor, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, and the sign of everything that is good. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, strength in the hand.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

Life , Health , Hope

“The will is not free—it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect—but there is something behind the will which is free.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

Love , Life , World

“Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

Truth

“We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

God , Suffering

“We must overcome difficulty by constant practice. We must learn that nothing can happen to us unless we make ourselves susceptible to it.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

Learning

“A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

Women , Men , Heart , Sincerity

“Unselfishness is God.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

God

“The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

Sun , Secret

“And may I ask you, Europeans, what country you have ever raised to better conditions? Wherever you have found weaker races, you have exterminated them by the roots, as it were. You have settled on their lands and they are gone forever. What is the history of your America, your Australia and New Zealand, your Pacific Islands and South Africa? Where are those aboriginal races there today? They are all exterminated, you have killed them outright, as if they were wild beasts. It is only where you have not the power to do so, and there only, that other nations are still alive.”

Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quoted in Talageri, S. (2000). The Rigveda: A historical analysis. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.

History , Country

“The highest truth is this: God is present in all beings. They are His multiple forms. There is no other God to seek.... It is a man-making religion that we want.... Give up these weakening mysticisms, and be strong.... For the next fifty years. … let all other gods disappear from our minds. This is the only God that is awake, our own race, everywhere His hands, everywhere His feet, everywhere His ears; He covers everything.... The first of all worships is the worship of those all around us. … He alone serves God who serves all other beings.”

Swami Vivekananda

Quoted from Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage.

God , Religion , Strong , Truth

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”

Swami Vivekananda

Idea , Success , Dreams , Thinking

“After so much austerity I have known that the highest truth is this: He is present in every being! These are all in manifold forms of him. There is no other God to seek for! He alone is worshipping God, who serves all beings!”

Swami Vivekananda

Source: As quoted in Vivekananda : The Yogas and Other Works (1953), p. 173; also at "The Story Of Swami Vivekananda: Mission Impossible" at MyLifeYoga (10 December 2011) http://mylifeyoga.com/2011/12/10/the-story-of-swami-vivekananda-mission-impossibl/

God , Truth

“To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean", says the persevering soul; "at my will mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.”

Swami Vivekananda

Source: Vedânta philosophy : Lectures by the Swâmi Vivekânanda on Râja Yoga (1899), Ch. VI : Pratyâhâra and Dhâraṇâm

Soul , Drink , Mountain , Perseverance