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The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.

The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.

Swami Vivekananda
Passion, Divinity, Can Do
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta”, p.5, Advaita Ashrama

In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Doe, Brahman
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3133, Manonmani Publishers

Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.

Swami Vivekananda
Looks, World, Path
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1677, Manonmani Publishers

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Selfless, He Man
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1560, Manonmani Publishers

Only love for the Supreme Lord is true Bhakti. Love for any other being, however great, is not Bhakti. The "Supreme Lord" here means Ishvara, the concept of which transcends what you in the West mean by the personal God. "He from whom this universe proceeds, in whom it rests, and to whom it returns, He is Ishvara, the Eternal, the Pure, the All-Merciful, the Almighty, the Ever-Free, the All-Knowing, the Teacher of all teachers, the Lord who of His own nature is inexpressible Love."

Swami Vivekananda
Teacher, Mean, Knowing
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3193, Manonmani Publishers

As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form.

Swami Vivekananda
Different, Causes, Form

Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force is found of which all others are manifestations. So religion ceases to progress when unity is reached, which is the case with Hinduism.

Swami Vivekananda
Unity, Progress, Elements

The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.

Swami Vivekananda
Art, Ideas, Differences
Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

In the world take always the position of the giver.

Swami Vivekananda
World, Giver, Position
Source: tamilandvedas.com

The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.

Swami Vivekananda
Essence, Soul, Divinity
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Realizing, Illusion
Swami Vivekananda (1997). “A Concordance to Swami Vivekananda: A-H”

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

Swami Vivekananda
Forgiveness, Mother, Forgiving
Swami Vivekananda (1968). “Awakened India”

Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all.

Swami Vivekananda
Karma, Mother, Pain
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3005, Manonmani Publishers

Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Perfect, Prophet
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3209, Manonmani Publishers

We are all born cowards.

Swami Vivekananda
Coward, Cowardice, Born
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1424, Manonmani Publishers

With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?

Swami Vivekananda
Long, Lust, Way
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Sight, Two

The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Essence
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.103, Vivekananda Kendra

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Divinity
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.86, SkyLight Paths Publishing

You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; you are not matter, you are not bodies; matter is your servant,not you the servant of matter.

Swami Vivekananda
Children, Sheep, Perfect
Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.39, New World Library

The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.

Swami Vivekananda
Anger, Passion, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2607, Manonmani Publishers

When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage. Eternal progression is eternal bondage; annihilation of form is to be preferred. We must get free from any body, even a "god-body". God is the only real existence, there cannot be two. There is but One Soul, and I am That.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Names, Two
Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

What we want is progress, development, realisation.

Swami Vivekananda
Progress, Development, Want
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.32, editionNEXT.com

We are the living devils.

Swami Vivekananda
Devil
Source: tamilandvedas.com

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Heart
"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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