Top 100 Quotes About Swami Vivekananda
#1. Take Risk in Your Life, If You Win You Can Lead !!
If You loss You Can Guide !!
By - swami Vivekananda
Sophia
#2. With love there is no painful reaction; love only brings a reaction of bliss; if it does not, it is not love; it is mistaking something else for love." - Swami Vivekananda
Bhanu Prakash Singh
#3. Do you share my belief in Swami Vivekananda's dream that India will be a Jagad Guru once again? I see no reason for India to be left behind.
Narendra Modi
#4. I started reading the works of Swami Vivekananda. That gave me courage and a vision, it sharpened and deepened my sensitivities and gave me a new perspective and a direction in life. I decided to dedicate myself to others and till date I am continuing to follow that decision.
Narendra Modi
#5. Most of us will find that we were born for service. We must leave the results to God. If failure comes, there need be no sorrow. The work was done only for God. - Swami Vivekananda
Sister Nivedita
#6. I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody's religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person's religious practices.
Kangana Ranaut
#7. Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and American; but Keshub Chunder Sen is easily the greatest of all.
Keshub Chandra Sen
#8. The Swami Vivekananda lectured for the first time from a public platform on September 11th, 1893 and on July 4th, 1902, he passed away.
Swami Vivekananda
#9. In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.
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#10. Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.
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#11. Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
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#12. No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.
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#13. Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
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#15. Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.
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#16. Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.
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#17. In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours
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#18. There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.
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#20. The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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#21. The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone that makes us free.
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#22. I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.
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#23. May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.
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#24. the appearances of happiness or unhappiness of the soul are but reflections.
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#26. From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who knows Him becomes free.
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#27. It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.
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#28. May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!
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#29. Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!
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#30. If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)
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#31. Never mind failures; they are quite natural,
they are the beauty of life, these failures.
What would be LIFE without them
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#32. Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.
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#34. My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.
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#35. The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.
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#36. Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery over his own body. Herbs and medicines have power over us as long as we allow them; when we become strong, these external methods are no more necessary.
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#37. A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.
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#38. Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.
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#39. The success sometimes may come immediately, but we must be ready to wait patiently even for what may look like an infinite length of time. The student who sets out with such a spirit of perseverance will surely find success and realisation at last.
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#40. Do you have the belief in you to move on, even when the whole world is against you, with swords in their hands?
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#41. 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.
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#43. The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.
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#44. Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.
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#46. Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work through you, and when you die your body will make other plants grow. Yet we think all the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus the wheel goes round.
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#47. You need not worry or make yourself sleepless about the world; it will go on without you.
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#48. You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength
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#49. The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.
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#50. The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.
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#51. I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.
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#52. By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.
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#53. Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing.
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#55. Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.
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#57. There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar is far higher than the worship of any dead symbols.
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#58. stick to truth and we shall succeed, may be slowly, but surely.
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#59. The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible.
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#60. The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.
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#61. The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.
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#62. Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.
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#63. The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion.
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#64. The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent.
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#65. If you want the reward, you must also have the punishment; the only way to get out of the punishment is to give up the reward.
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#67. You are all bound by the law of Karma, the Upanishads admit, but they declare the way out.
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#68. Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.
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#69. In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.
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#70. Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you.
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#72. Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.
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#73. Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.
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#74. The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.
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#75. To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.
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#76. Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.
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#77. It is the Level-headed Man, the Calm Man, of Good Judgement and cool nerves, of Great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
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#78. What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you.
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#79. [Krishna answers:] The man who has given up all desires, who desires nothing, not even this life, nor freedom, nor gods, nor work, nor anything.
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#82. Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.
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#83. Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.
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#85. To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.
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#86. Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.
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#87. Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.
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#88. We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.
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#89. Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.
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#90. Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.
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#91. A little of the infinite is projected into consciousness, and that we call our world.
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#92. Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.
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#93. As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.
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#94. The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.
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#95. To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.
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#96. If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot become perfect here and now, we never can in any state or heaven or condition we may imagine.
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#97. No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.
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#98. It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.
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#99. If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.
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#100. Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.
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