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First get rid of the delusion I am the body, then only will we want real knowledge.

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.

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

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.

Swami Vivekananda
Dog, Pain, Cat

All the powers in the universe are already ours.

Swami Vivekananda
Universe
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Thoughts of Power”, p.3, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

Swami Vivekananda
Idol Worship, Opinion, Idolatry
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Higher, Conception
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3128, Manonmani Publishers

The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful

Swami Vivekananda
Religious, Cheerful, Firsts

Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.

Swami Vivekananda
Body, Human Life, Thirst
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.119, Advaita Ashrama

Everything has a cause.

Swami Vivekananda
Causes, Effects
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3352, Manonmani Publishers

Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Meditation, Growth
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1639, Manonmani Publishers

God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed.

Swami Vivekananda
Running, Chaos, Made
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.14, Advaita Ashrama

Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Strong
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.156, Vivekananda Kendra

The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Church, Trying
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round in fear lest at any moment some one may come and drive them out. Instead of that, be a king and know you own the world. This never comes until you give it up and it ceases to bind. Give up mentally, if you do not physically. Give up from the heart of your hearts

Swami Vivekananda
Dog, Kings, Giving Up
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.23, Advaita Ashrama

The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Hands, Salvation

I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

Swami Vivekananda
Believe, Acceptance, Tolerance
Opening Welcome Address at the World Parliament of Religions, delivered 11 September 1893

It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.

Swami Vivekananda
Change, Powerful, Surroundings
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.380, Manonmani Publishers

Have faith in your destiny

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Destiny, Have Faith
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1339, Manonmani Publishers

I am not talking about what every one of us means by love. Little namby-pamby love is lovely. Man rails in love with woman, and woman goes to die for man. The chances are that in five minutes John kicks Jane, and Jane kicks John. This is a materialism and no love at all. If John could really love Jane, he would be perfect that moment.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Men, Love Is

The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Long, Desire
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.53, Advaita Ashrama

I am persuaded that a leader is not made in one life. He has to be born for it. For the difficulty is not in organisation and making plans; the test, the real test, of the leader, lies in holding widely different people together along the line of their common sympathies. And this can only be done unconsciously, never by trying.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Lying, People
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3718, Manonmani Publishers

Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection.

Swami Vivekananda
Perfect, Soul, Ends
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.977, Manonmani Publishers

Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.

Swami Vivekananda
God, Spiritual, Law
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1304, Manonmani Publishers

Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Believe
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.6, editionNEXT.com

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

Swami Vivekananda
Character, Greatness, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.21, Advaita Ashrama

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

Swami Vivekananda
Struggle, Perfection, Morality
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3150, Manonmani Publishers

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