Swami Vivekananda: Doing

Swami Vivekananda was Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“Say, ‘This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.’ That which I created, I can demolish; that which is created by someone else, I shall never be able to destroy. Therefore, stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creators of your own destiny. All the strength and success you want is within ourselves.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“It is the coward and the fool who says, This is my fate – so says the Sanskrit proverb. But it is the strong man who stands up and says, I will make my own fate. It is people who are getting old who talk of fate. Young men generally do not come to astrology.”

Swami Vivekananda

Call to the Nation

“Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through selfless work.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“Have you got the will to surmount mountain-high obstructions? If the whole world stands against you sword in hand, would you still dare to do what you think is right?”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“The Vedanta teaches that Nirvana can be attained here and now, that we do not have to wait for death to reach it. Nirvana is the realization of the Self; and after having once known that, if only for an instant, never again can one be deluded by the mirage of personality.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

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

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are, the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do. When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“To believe blindly is to degenerate the human soul. Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“Come out into the universe of Light. Everything in the universe is yours, stretch out your arms and embrace it with love. If you every felt you wanted to do that, you have felt God.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“Do not look back upon what has been done. Go ahead!”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”

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