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Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and

Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result.

Swami Vivekananda
Law, India, Study
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “The Vedanta Philosophy: Art of living”, p.41, editionNEXT.com

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiring, Intelligent, Iron
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3031, Manonmani Publishers

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiring, Karma, Past
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2374, Manonmani Publishers

Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Wisdom, Thinking
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3102, Manonmani Publishers

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.

Swami Vivekananda
Forgiveness, Ideas, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1539, Manonmani Publishers

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

Swami Vivekananda
Animal, Men, Thinking
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.32, editionNEXT.com

. . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . .

Swami Vivekananda
Patience, Perseverance, Children
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2075, Manonmani Publishers

Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.

Swami Vivekananda
Patience, Perseverance, Secret
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2041, Manonmani Publishers

No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.

Swami Vivekananda
Health, Negative, Want
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2788, Manonmani Publishers

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. .

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Soul, Impossible
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.

Swami Vivekananda
Self, Soul, Body
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.877, Manonmani Publishers

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

Swami Vivekananda
Mind, Body, Divinity
Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by work. It is a question of knowledge! You must know what you are, and it is done. The dream vanishes. This you [and others] are dreaming here. When they die, they go to [the] heaven [of their dream]. They live in that dream, and [when it ends], they take a nice body [here], and they are good people.

Swami Vivekananda
Dream, Nice, Mean
"Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/Breathing" by Swami Vivekananda,

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

Swami Vivekananda
Philosophy, Soul, Want
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.81, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith in man, whether he appears to be an angel or the very devil himself. Have faith in man first, and then having faith in him, believe that if there are defects in him, if he makes mistakes, if he embraces the crudest and the vilest doctrines, believe that it is not from his real nature that they come, but from the want of higher ideals.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Real, Mistake
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1284, Manonmani Publishers

Do not say, ‘You are bad’; say only, ‘You are good’, but be better!

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3117, Manonmani Publishers

Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery? When you have the human body, then rouse the Atman within and say-I have reached the state of fearlessness!...and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: 'Thou art That', 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Art, Hero
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you... He is everywhere, saying, "I am." The moment you feel "I am," you are conscious of Existence. Where shall we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Want, Worship
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.

Swami Vivekananda
Religious, Real, Soul
"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is HIS business.

Swami Vivekananda
Letting Go, Real, Eye
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Fields, Gone
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2087, Manonmani Publishers

When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face.

Swami Vivekananda
Difficult Situations, Faces, Difficult
Source: tamilandvedas.com

All work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul. The power is inside every man, so is knowing; the different works are like blows to bring them out, to cause these giants to wake up.

Swami Vivekananda
Blow, Men, Knowing
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.37, Manonmani Publishers

Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Brave
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2092, Manonmani Publishers

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Swami Vivekananda
Nature, Internals
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

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