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Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!

Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Heart, Blood
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.138, Advaita Ashrama

Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as that.

Swami Vivekananda
Beautiful, Sleep, Giving
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1639, Manonmani Publishers

Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist has known all that is in man? Millions of years have passed since man came here, and yet but one infinitesimal part of his powers has been manifested. Therefore, you must not say that you are weak. How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

Swami Vivekananda
Lying, Ocean, Men
Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Action
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4660, Manonmani Publishers

Not one is constant, but everything is changing.

Swami Vivekananda
Change, Constant
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.26, Advaita Ashrama

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

Swami Vivekananda
Coward, Weakness, Sin
Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.

Swami Vivekananda
Roots, Messages, Reform
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.231, Advaita Ashrama

This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and He is our own true nature, and He is always in us and with us. Let us live in Him and stand in Him. It is the only joyful state of existence. Life on the plane of the Spirit is the only life, and let us all try to attain to this realization.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Self, Trying
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.77, editionNEXT.com

If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for some less - the weaker should be given more chance than the strong. In other words, a Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten. For greater help must be given to him whom nature has not endowed with an acute intellect from birth. It is a madman who carries coals to Newcastle. The poor, the downtrodden, the ignorant, let these be your God.

Swami Vivekananda
Teacher, Strong, Son
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2840, Manonmani Publishers

Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.

Swami Vivekananda
Religious, Practice, Beginners
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.56, editionNEXT.com

I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.

Swami Vivekananda
Mother, Indebted

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Reverence, Approach
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.378, Manonmani Publishers

If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.

Swami Vivekananda
Moments, Bondage, Dare
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.780, Manonmani Publishers

You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desires for name and fame.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Names, Desire
Swami Vivekananda (1926). “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”

Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Self, Desire
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.

Swami Vivekananda
Strong, Moving, Water
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1767, Manonmani Publishers

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

Swami Vivekananda
Book, Ignorance, Negative
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3157, Manonmani Publishers

Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed.

Swami Vivekananda
Fall, Eye, Men
Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.139, New World Library

The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas.

Swami Vivekananda
Yoga, Attachment, Practice
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.

Swami Vivekananda
Vedas, Commentary, Has Beens
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1174, Manonmani Publishers

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.

Swami Vivekananda
Ethics, Bases, Renunciation
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.7, editionNEXT.com

That is the great fact which you ought to remember. We are the children of the Almighty, we are sparks of the infinite, divine fire. How can we be nothings? We are everything, ready to do everything, we can do everything, and man must do everything.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Children, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1277, Manonmani Publishers

The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the right to make others miserable by his foolish acts. Wait, have patience, everything will come right in time.

Swami Vivekananda
Patience, Perseverance, Fall
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1988, Manonmani Publishers

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

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

Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little selves and making us think of ourselves as the lowest and the least, and, therefore, it is all good. Here we find that Jnâna, Bhakti, and Karma - all come to one point.

Swami Vivekananda
Karma, Thinking, Self
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.83, Manonmani Publishers

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