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Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Eye
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.45, editionNEXT.com

Where will you go to seek Brahman? He is immanent in all beings. Here, here is the visible Brahman! Shame on those who, neglecting the visible Brahman, set their minds on other things! Here is the visible Brahman before you as tangible as a fruit in one's hand! Can't you see? Here - here - is Brahman!

Swami Vivekananda
Hands, Mind, Tangible
Swami Vivekananda (1984). “Awakened India”

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

Swami Vivekananda
Buddhism, Hinduism, Modern
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2614, Manonmani Publishers

Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. Avoid all these. Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion. Is there any mystery in the Vedanta, or in the Vedas, or in the Samhitâs, or in the Puranas? What secret societies did the sages of yore establish to preach their religion? What sleight-of-hand tricks are there recorded as used by them to bring their grand truths to humanity?

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Men, Blood
Swami Vivekananda “Lectures Vol. 3”, Jazzybee Verlag

Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal.

Swami Vivekananda
Shapes, Form, Eternal
Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? Is it the fault of the merciful Father, whose wind of mercy is blowing without ceasing, day and night, whose mercy knows no decay, is it His fault that some of us are happy and some unhappy? We make our own destiny. His sun shines for the weak as well as for the strong. His wind blows for saint and sinner alike. He is the Lord of all, the Father of all, merciful, and impartial.

Swami Vivekananda
Strong, Father, Blow
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.671, Manonmani Publishers

The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.

Swami Vivekananda
Progress, Wave, Form
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

Ours is the only religion that does not depend on a person or persons; it is based upon principles. At the same time there is room for millions of persons. There is ample ground for introducing persons, but each one of them must be an illustration of the principles. We must not forget that. These principles of our religion are all safe, and it should be the life-work of everyone of us to keep then safe, and to keep them free from the accumulating dirt and dust of ages.

Swami Vivekananda
Illustration, Dust, Age
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.213, editionNEXT.com

The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body.

Swami Vivekananda
Change, Thinking, Names
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.25, Advaita Ashrama

Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power. Now they are vanishing and I drift. I come, Mother, I come, in Thy warm bosom, floating wheresoever Thou takest me, in the voiceless, in the strange, in the wonderland, I come - a spectator, no more an actor.

Swami Vivekananda
Mother, Ambition, Personality
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3000, Manonmani Publishers

Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.

Swami Vivekananda
Perfection
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.40, editionNEXT.com

My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person.

Swami Vivekananda
Names, Ideas, Want
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.

Swami Vivekananda
Religious, Struggle, Doors
Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.143, Jazzybee Verlag

Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest. God was everywhere, in all beings, before Christ; but in Christ we became conscious of Him. This is God. The third is bliss, the Holy Spirit.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Father, Son
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3655, Manonmani Publishers

Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

Swami Vivekananda
Weakness, Misery, Constant
Source: tamilandvedas.com

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.

Swami Vivekananda
Social, Pariahs, Brutes
Swami Vivekananda (1974). “Awakened India”

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

Swami Vivekananda
Analysis, Hinduism, Grammar
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2599, Manonmani Publishers

We want Shraddhâ, we want faith in our own selves. Strength is life, weakness is death. 'We are the Âtman, deathless and free; pure, pure by nature. Can we ever commit any sin? Impossible!' - such a faith is needed. Such a faith makes men of us, makes gods of us. It is by losing this idea of Shraddha that the country has gone to ruin.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Country, Men

See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty talks! While the moment you will go to Calcutta, you will be thinking of nasty stuff.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Thinking, Air
Vivekananda (Swami) (1964). “Complete works”

This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by ignorance that makes us feel heat and cold, pain and pleasure.

Swami Vivekananda
Pain, Ignorance, Simple
Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.119, Jazzybee Verlag

We never change, we never die, and we are never born.

Swami Vivekananda
Change, Never Change, Born
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.382, Manonmani Publishers

It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.

Swami Vivekananda
Progress, India, Development

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Practice, Silence
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.39, Manonmani Publishers

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

Swami Vivekananda
Anger, Killing, Righteous
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3117, Manonmani Publishers

In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Doors, Infinite
Source: tamilandvedas.com

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