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Doing good to others is the #‎ one great Universal Religion

Doing good to others is the #‎ one great Universal Religion

Swami Vivekananda
Doing Good, Universal
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2955, Manonmani Publishers

The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the ideal. The energy of the Greek painter is spent in perhaps painting a piece of flesh, and he is so successful that a dog is deluded into taking it to be a real bit of meat and so goes to bite it. Now, what glory is there in merely imitating nature? Why not place an actual bit of flesh before the dog?

Swami Vivekananda
Dog, Art, Real
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2219, Manonmani Publishers

There cannot be two almighty beings in this world. [Imagine having] two or three Gods; one will create the world, another says, "I will destroy the world." It [can] never happen. There must be one God. The soul attains to perfection; [it becomes] almost omnipotent [and] omniscient. This is the worshipper. Who is the worshipped? He, the Lord God Himself, the Omnipresent, the Omniscient, and so on. And above all, He is Love. How is [the soul] to attain this perfection? By worship.

Swami Vivekananda
Two, Perfection, Soul
Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Thinking, Evil

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.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Shining, Desire
Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, New Life, Vigor
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2794, Manonmani Publishers

We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiring, Details, Enjoy
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.475, Manonmani Publishers

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

Swami Vivekananda
Desire, Doe, Panorama

The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils.

Swami Vivekananda
Powerful, Differences, Knowledge And Power
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.102, SkyLight Paths Publishing

A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go. It is, for instance, a continuous struggle for food and air. If food or air fails, we die. Life is not a simple and smoothly flowing thing, but it is a compound effect. This complex struggle between something inside and the external world is what we call life. So it is clear that when this struggle ceases, there will be an end of life.

Swami Vivekananda
Struggle, Fighting, Simple
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga”, p.97, Swami Vivekananda

The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Men, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.

Swami Vivekananda
Heaven, Moments, Working It
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1228, Manonmani Publishers

The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Giving, Realizing

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.

Swami Vivekananda
Taken, People, Body
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2625, Manonmani Publishers

The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.

Swami Vivekananda
Strong, Intellectual, Next

Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end.

Swami Vivekananda
Ends, Form
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.126, editionNEXT.com

True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.

Swami Vivekananda
Book, Teaching, Reading
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1596, Manonmani Publishers

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Religious, Heart
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1902, Manonmani Publishers

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Long, Use
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.42, Vivekananda Kendra

If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody to grope towards, no devil to lay our blame upon, no Personal God to carry our burdens, when we are alone responsible, then we shall rise to our highest and best. I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil.

Swami Vivekananda
Responsibility, Fate, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (1935). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

Swami Vivekananda
Perfection, Doe, Belief
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1549, Manonmani Publishers

Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is "righteous".

Swami Vivekananda
Anger, Sin, Righteous
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.156, Advaita Ashrama

Give everything and look for no return.

Swami Vivekananda
Giving, Looks, Return
Source: tamilandvedas.com

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.

Swami Vivekananda
Karma, Country, Yoga
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

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