Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.

If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.

Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.

Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.

Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies.

Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing.

In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings.

No two persons have the same mind or the same body.

The body and mind are dependent.

The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.

This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall.

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?

Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.

On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite.

A changeable God would be no God.

Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart.

We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men.

Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman.

Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.

Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go.

The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.

Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.

Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities.

Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way.

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.

When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.

Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion.

As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion.

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested.

The real man is the one Unit Existence.

A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.

The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.

The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.

All is bound by the law of causation

Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing.

All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.

See what an atmosphere of holiness is here the pure air of the Ganga what an assemblage of Sadhus will you find anywhere a place like this!

I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.

The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks.

Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.

There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.

This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.

This rascal ego must be obliterated.

To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.

There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve.