Swami Vivekananda: Quotes about the soul

Swami Vivekananda was Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher. Explore interesting quotes on soul.

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“Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”

“Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter.”

Swami Vivekananda

Attributed in Swami Vivekananda: The Charm of His Personality and Message by Swami Atmashraddhananda https://books.google.ca/books?id=Pwk7CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT234&lpg=PT234&dq=shake+off+the+delusion+that+you+are+sheep+vivekananda&source=bl&ots=CTkWW7sBV8&sig=g_L6z3fwVO6qBDIvfqP1sq7pPFk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIvvTTqo_OAhXB1IMKHaErBP8Q6AEILDAD#v=onepage&q=shake%20off%20the%20delusion%20that%20you%20are%20sheep%20vivekananda&f=false <br class="br">Disputed

“Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin — to say that you are weak, or others are weak.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself…. Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see Truth.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul.”

Swami Vivekananda

Source: Karma Yoga: the Yoga of Action

“We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth—Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“God is merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom
Variant: God is merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.

“Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry. The soul has no sex, no country, no place, no time.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“Ye are the children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. Ye divinities on earth - sinners! It is a sin to call man so; it is a standing libel on human nature. Come up, lions! and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal.”

Swami Vivekananda

Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Calcutta, 1985, Vol I. p. 11. Quoted from Goel, S. R. (1996). History of Hindu-Christian encounters, AD 304 to 1996. Chapter 13 ISBN 9788185990354

“This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“There is only one sin. That is weakness…. The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom