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When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.

When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Worship, Whole Life
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.35, Advaita Ashrama

Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Children, Lying
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind...what we sow is what we reap.

Swami Vivekananda
Energy, Return, Action

Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Real Men, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.722, Manonmani Publishers

Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring
Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna, for it comes as an open gate to heaven. But if you do not participate in this battle against evil, you will incur sin, violating your dharma and your honor.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, War, Evil

The weak, the fearful, the ignorant will never reach the Atman. You cannot undo what you have done; the effect must come. Face it, but be careful never to do the same thing again. Give up the burden of all deeds to God. Give all, both good and bad. God helps those who do not help themselves.

Swami Vivekananda
Giving Up, Ignorant, Done

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!

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiring, Book, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.53, Advaita Ashrama

The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Goal, Soul
Swami Vivekananda (1993). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

Swami Vivekananda
Book, Heart, Needs
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2376, Manonmani Publishers

It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'

Swami Vivekananda
Strong, Fate, Coward

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

Swami Vivekananda
Littles, Spirituality, Materialism
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2855, Manonmani Publishers

The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat of cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything.

Swami Vivekananda
Pain, Light, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.427, Manonmani Publishers

When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.

Swami Vivekananda
Light, Imagination, Use

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

Swami Vivekananda
Fate, Divinity, Blame
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.107, editionNEXT.com

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Meditation, Mindfulness
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com

The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

Swami Vivekananda
Power, Men, Manifest
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.385, Manonmani Publishers

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

Swami Vivekananda
Forgiveness, Mother, Children
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3536, Manonmani Publishers

Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

Swami Vivekananda
Pain, Self, Giving
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Football
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.79, Vivekananda Kendra

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Beautiful
Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

Swami Vivekananda
Mind, Who Cares, Way
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.242, Advaita Ashrama

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiring, Sitting, Body
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.91, SkyLight Paths Publishing

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

Swami Vivekananda
Marriage, Ignorance, Evil
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.107, Vivekananda Kendra

The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.

Swami Vivekananda
Karma, Yoga, Secret

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