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The sign of life is strength and growth.

The sign of life is strength and growth.

Swami Vivekananda
Growth, Life Is, Signs Of Life
Source: tamilandvedas.com

Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore!

Swami Vivekananda
Boat, Shore

If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help.

Swami Vivekananda
Teacher, Gratitude, Book
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.

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

You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The Lord God is its Governor and Maintainer, and in spite of these wine fanatics and cigar fanatics, and all sorts of marriage fanatics, it would go on. If all these persons were to die, it would go on none the worse.

Swami Vivekananda
Wine, Goes On, World
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2203, Manonmani Publishers

The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

Swami Vivekananda
Hinduism, Subjective
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2600, Manonmani Publishers

It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one thought to another, he must necessarily reject the first. But no error can lead to truth. The soul passing through its different stages goes from truth to truth, and each stage is true; it goes from lower truth to higher truth.

Swami Vivekananda
Errors, Perfection, Soul
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.350, Manonmani Publishers

Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in the practice of self-control.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Self, Practice
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.89, Manonmani Publishers

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

Swami Vivekananda
Misery, Materialism
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.209, editionNEXT.com

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Swami Vivekananda
Money, Men, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.7, editionNEXT.com

Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying upon differences, and that all good comes from faith in equality, in the underlying sameness and oneness of things. This is the great Vedantic ideal.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Ignorance, Differences
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1116, Manonmani Publishers

A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Attachment, Rags

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

Swami Vivekananda
Hate, Political, Coward
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2060, Manonmani Publishers

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

Swami Vivekananda
Like Love, Coward, Trying
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2382, Manonmani Publishers

This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.

Swami Vivekananda
World, Delusion
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.207, Advaita Ashrama

What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one of us. God sitting up on a cloud! Think of the utter blasphemy of it! It is materialism - downright materialism. When babies think this way, it may be all right, but when grown - up men try to teach such things, it is downright disgusting - that is what it is. It is all matter, all body idea, the gross idea, the sense idea. Every bit of it is clay and nothing but clay. Is that religion?

Swami Vivekananda
Baby, Men, Thinking
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3594, Manonmani Publishers

Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this Shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Strong, Giving Up
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1227, Manonmani Publishers

You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds

Swami Vivekananda
Children, Past, Hands
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Essentials of Hinduism”, p.16, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Too early religious advancement of the Hindus and that superfineness in everything which made them cling to higher alternatives, have reduced them to what they are. The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.

Swami Vivekananda
Religious, Advancement, Alternatives
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2608, Manonmani Publishers

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

Swami Vivekananda
Ideas, Chains That Bind, Spirit
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute; all truth in the universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Discipline, Purification
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.377, Manonmani Publishers

I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.

Swami Vivekananda
Light, Giving, Forever
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3994, Manonmani Publishers

Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.

Swami Vivekananda
Causes, Bondage, Cause And Effect
Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Selections from Swami Vivekananda”

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

Swami Vivekananda
Health, Long, Wealth
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

Swami Vivekananda
Evil, Add, World
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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