Vivékánanda híres idézetei
„A világ olyan, mint egy remek edzőterem, ahol eljuthatunk önmagunk erőssé tételéig.”
Eredeti: It is a great gymnasium in which you and I, and millions of souls must come and get exercises, and make ourselves strong and perfect. Teljes szöveg (angolul) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vivekananda/Volume_4/Lectures_and_Discourses/The_Claims_of_Religion
„Semmi az egész univerzumban nincs hatalma feletted, míg te magad nem engedi hatalmat fölötte.”
Eredeti: Nothing in the universe has power over you until you allow it to exercise such a power. Teljes szöveg (angolul) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vivekananda/Volume_1/Karma-Yoga/Non-attachment_is_complete_self-abnegation
„Kelj fel, ébredj fel, és amíg a célt nem éred el, ne állj meg.”
Eredeti: Arise, awake and stop not till the desired end is reached. Teljes szöveg (angolul) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vivekananda/Volume_3/Lectures_from_Colombo_to_Almora/Address_of_Welcome_Presented_at_Calcutta_and_Reply
„Tudom, biztosan tudom, hogy nagy dolgokat csak nagy áldozatok árán lehet megvalósítani.”
Eredeti: I know, and know for sure, that great things are done only by great sacrifices. Teljes szöveg (angolul) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vivekananda/Volume_6/Epistles_-_Second_Series/LI_Dear_and_Belovedszöveg
Eredeti: To love anyone personally is bondage. Love all alike, then all desires fall off. Teljes szöveg (angolul) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vivekananda/Volume_7/Inspired_Talks/Wednesday,_July_24
Vivékánanda: Idézetek angolul
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
Pearls of Wisdom
Swami Vivekananda Quoted in Talageri, S. (2000). The Rigveda: A historical analysis. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
Quoted from Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage.
Forrás: 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/
Forrás: Vedânta philosophy : Lectures by the Swâmi Vivekânanda on Râja Yoga (1899), Ch. VI : Pratyâhâra and Dhâraṇâm
Forrás: Spoken on his return to India from England, as recorded in From Colombo to Almora (1904), p. 221