Swami Vivekananda Quotes
We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that.
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.
The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.
Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation.
Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.
Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .
I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.
We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.
Come out into the Universe of Light. Everything in the Universe is Yours, stretch out your arms and Embrace it with Love
India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.
What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.
The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.
The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.
The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.
In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.
Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.
No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste.
The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart.
All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.
Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.
Purusha is the; great attraction of the universe; though untouched by and unconnected with the universe, yet it attracts the whole; universe.
It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.
Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.
Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.
When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply.
Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.
Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.
Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With us, religion is the only ground along which we can move.
Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady intellect..." Never allow weakness to overtake your mind.
If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground.
The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.
