Swami Vivekananda
- Country : India
- Profession :Teacher Philosopher
- DOB: 1863-01-12
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902), a key figure in introducing Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world, was born in Kolkata, India. A disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, he played a pivotal role in the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago, delivering a historic speech that emphasized religious tolerance and universal spirituality. Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, promoting the synthesis of Eastern and Western thought. His teachings on self-realization, service to humanity, and the divinity of every soul continue to inspire millions worldwide. Vivekananda passed away at the age of 39.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Author: Swami VivekanandaHe who sees Siva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Siva; and if he sees Siva only in the image, his worship is but
preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Siva in him without thinking of his caste, creed or race, or anything, with him Siva
is more pleased than with the man who sees him only in temples.
Author: Swami VivekanandaDespondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God, nearer than any prayer.
Author: Swami VivekanandaIt is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion—the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so
that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing, but to get the higher.
Author: Swami VivekanandaFreedom is only possible to the being who is beyond all conditions, all laws, all bondages of cause and effect. In other words, the unchangeable
Author: Swami VivekanandaThe real individuality is that which never changes and will never change; and that is the God within us.
Author: Swami VivekanandaAll idea of separation is bondage, that of non-differentiation is Mukti. Let not the words of people dead-drunk with worldliness terrify you. Be
fearless; ignore the ordinary critics as worms.
Author: Swami VivekanandaWhere should you go to seek for God — are not all the poor, the miserable, the weak, Gods? Why not worship them first? Why go to dig a well on the shores of the Ganga.
Author: Swami VivekanandaBe thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence & mercy in the world and thus, become pure and perfect. Be grateful to the man you help, think of him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellowmen
Author: Swami VivekanandaEach soul is potentially Divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work or worship or psychic control or philosophy- by one or more all of these- and be free. This is the whole of RELIGION. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.
Author: Swami VivekanandaEvery work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.
Author: Swami VivekanandaBe cheerful. . . . Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, “boss” others. Be the servant of all.
Author: Swami VivekanandaBe not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.
Author: Swami VivekanandaNever mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow— never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.
Author: Swami VivekanandaNever 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.
Author: Swami VivekanandaTo 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.
Author: Swami VivekanandaIn a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.
Author: Swami VivekanandaStop creation and you know the truth. All power of creation must stop, and then you know the truth at once.
Author: Swami VivekanandaOur duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Author: Swami VivekanandaNone will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? unselfish even unto death? and loving? Then fear not, not even death. Onward, my lads.
Author: Swami VivekanandaBe sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right Truth must triumph.
Author: Swami VivekanandaDare to be free, dare to go as far as you’re thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Author: Swami VivekanandaThe earth is enjoyed by heroes – this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Author: Swami VivekanandaLearn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way adsorb it; do not become others.
Author: Swami VivekanandaAll knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Author: Swami VivekanandaA fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.
Author: Swami VivekanandaExperience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth
Author: Swami VivekanandaThrow away all weaknesses. tell your body that it is strong. Tell your mind that it is strong and have unbound faith and hope in yourself.
Author: Swami VivekanandaThe power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.
Author: Swami VivekanandaStrength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death.
Author: Swami VivekanandaStand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.
Author: Swami VivekanandaCondemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Author: Swami VivekanandaWe are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Author: Swami VivekanandaThe more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
Author: Swami VivekanandaWe are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
Author: Swami VivekanandaDo not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
Author: Swami VivekanandaIf you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.
Author: Swami VivekanandaThe greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
Author: Swami VivekanandaAre you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.
Author: Swami VivekanandaDon’t look back – forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience – then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Author: Swami VivekanandaAre great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Author: Swami VivekanandaAll power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you.
Author: Swami VivekanandaAll the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Author: Swami VivekanandaThe great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
Author: Swami VivekanandaHave faith in yourself – all power is in you. Even the poison of a snake is powerless, if you can firmly deny it.
Author: Swami VivekanandaEach work has to pass through these stages – ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Author: Swami VivekanandaBe the servant while leading. Be unselfish. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.
Author: Swami VivekanandaEverything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
Author: Swami VivekanandaThe fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire
Author: Swami VivekanandaTruth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Author: Swami VivekanandaI am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world tolerance & universal acceptance. we believe not only in universal toleration but we accept all religions as true.
Author: Swami VivekanandaDo not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you, if you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
Author: Swami VivekanandaBless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.
Author: Swami VivekanandaBooks are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
Author: Swami VivekanandaTalk to yourself at least once in a day. Otherwise, you may miss a meeting with an excellent person in this world.
Author: Swami VivekanandaEvery successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in life. He may not have been perfectly unselfish; yet he was tending towards it. If he had been perfectly unselfish, his would have been as great a success as that of the Buddha or of the Christ. The degree of unselfishness marks the degree of success everywhere.
Author: Swami VivekanandaPurity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
Author: Swami VivekanandaTrue religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion does not consist in erecting temples, or building churches, or attending public worship. It is not to be found in books, or in words, or in lectures, or in organizations.
Author: Swami VivekanandaReligion consists in realization. We must realize God, feel God, see God, talk to God. That is religion.
Author: Swami VivekanandaTake up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
Author: Swami VivekanandaThe remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
Author: Swami VivekanandaYou are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the almighty, omnipresent, divine principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
Author: Swami VivekanandaTake risks in your life, if you win, you can lead! if you lose, you can guide
Author: Swami VivekanandaNever say no, Never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. All the power is within you. You can do anything.
Author: Swami VivekanandaNo life will be a failure; there is no such thing as failure in the universe. A hundred times man will hurt himself, a thousand times he will tumble, but in the end he will realism that he is God.
Author: Swami VivekanandaAll the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
Author: Swami VivekanandaIf I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults.
Author: Swami VivekanandaIf you don’t learn to Control your Thoughts, you will ever learn how to contol your Behavior.
Author: Swami VivekanandaDo one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
Author: Swami VivekanandaThere is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Author: Swami VivekanandaThe whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
Author: Swami Vivekananda