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Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward -

Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Life, Moving On
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1916, Manonmani Publishers

Don't you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex - appetite or anger?

Swami Vivekananda
Sex, Anger, Weak
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you should try to root out this devil from your heart. Complete self-surrender is the only way to spiritual illumination.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Heart, Self

In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.

Swami Vivekananda
Perfect, Balance, Decomposition
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.98, editionNEXT.com

Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Conquer, Born
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2374, Manonmani Publishers

Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.

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

We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings.

Swami Vivekananda
Charity, Practicals, Conception
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1642, Manonmani Publishers

God is one the paths to reach him (religions) are many - just as different rivers, originating in different mountains, traverse different paths, flowing straight or crooked, and at last join the ocean. He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.

Swami Vivekananda
God, Ocean, Rivers

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

Swami Vivekananda
Soldier, Coward, Command
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4016, Manonmani Publishers

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Patience, Perseverance
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2061, Manonmani Publishers

The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others.

Swami Vivekananda
Running, Mind, Purpose
Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.130, Jazzybee Verlag

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

Swami Vivekananda
Life, Weakness, Life Death
Swami Vivekananda “Life changing quotes By Swami Vivekananda”, Bhagyesh

The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.

Swami Vivekananda
Philosophy, Knowing, Unity

One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth.

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

The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.

Swami Vivekananda
Long, Faces, Misery

We have lost faith in ourselves. Therefore to preach the Advaita aspect of the Vedanta is necessary to rouse up the hearts of men, to show them the glory of their souls. It is therefore that I preach this Advaita, and I do so not as a sectarian, but upon universal and widely acceptable grounds.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Heart, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1114, Manonmani Publishers

As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.

Swami Vivekananda
Nice, Thinking, Want
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.20, editionNEXT.com

The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.

Swami Vivekananda
Water, Balance, Holiness
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.28, Advaita Ashrama

The perfect man sees nothing but God.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Perfect, Human Beings
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.518, Manonmani Publishers

Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.

Swami Vivekananda
Philosophy, Men, Vedanta
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.136, editionNEXT.com

There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real "you." All the gods are little beings to you, all the ideas of God and Father in heaven are but your own reflection. God Himself is your image. “God created man after His own image." That is wrong. Man creates God after his own image. That is right. Throughout the universe we are creating gods after our own image. We create the god and fall down at his feet and worship him; and when this dream comes, we love it !

Swami Vivekananda
Dream, Father, Real
"The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda".

The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if it does so; the difference lies in the way in which it is used.

Swami Vivekananda
Children, Lying, Fire
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion”, p.55, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

Swami Vivekananda
Happiness, Inner Peace, Different
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.557, Manonmani Publishers

If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for your good, could you do even that without any hesitations Just think of it even now; otherwise don't rush forward on the spur of the moment to accept me as your Guru.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, House, Spurs
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3044, Manonmani Publishers

Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.

Swami Vivekananda
Health, Silence, Sorrow
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4574, Manonmani Publishers

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