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Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.

Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, India, Importance
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1279, Manonmani Publishers

We shall progress inch by inch.

Swami Vivekananda
Progress, Inches
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1984, Manonmani Publishers

In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

Swami Vivekananda
Two, Life And Death, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.104, Advaita Ashrama

Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!

Swami Vivekananda
Mother, Goes On, Glory

An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Heart, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.376, Manonmani Publishers

You gain nothing by becoming cowards.

Swami Vivekananda
Coward, Gains, Becoming
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.419, Manonmani Publishers

If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control, to attain to that consciousness from which you will be able to study the mind and remain unmoved by any of its wild gyrations. Otherwise the facts observed will not be reliable; they will not apply to all people and therefore will not be truly facts or data at all.

Swami Vivekananda
Practice, Data, Discipline
Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga. . . . On the other side of the Ganga a big plot of land will be acquired, where unmarried girls or Brahmacharini widows will live; devout married women will also be allowed to stay now and then. Men will have no concern with this Math.

Swami Vivekananda
Girl, Mother, Inspiration
"The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda". Book by Swami Vivekananda, Volume 7, Conversations And Dialogues,

In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.

Swami Vivekananda
Marriage, Country, Husband
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.61, Advaita Ashrama

Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure another set. Those that tell us that there is sin and sorrow and death in the world are terrible. But the other set - thou art holy, there is God, there is no pain - these are good, and help to break the bondage of the others. The highest imagination that can break all the links of the chain is that of the Personal God.

Swami Vivekananda
Art, Pain, Imagination
Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Believe, Sleep
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3026, Manonmani Publishers

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Swami Vivekananda
Positive, Thinking, Expectations

The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Race, Progress
Swami Vivekananda (2014). “Raja Yoga”, p.11, Lulu Press, Inc

Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.

Swami Vivekananda
Ideas, Atoms, Misery
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.63, editionNEXT.com

Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for which one is best suited. But in this age, special stress should be laid on karma yoga.

Swami Vivekananda
Karma, Spiritual, Stress

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

Swami Vivekananda
Form, Fine, Gross
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.448, Manonmani Publishers

Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it.

Swami Vivekananda
Moving, Form, Results
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.16, editionNEXT.com

The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.

Swami Vivekananda
Perfection, Soul, Vedas
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.17, Advaita Ashrama

Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?

Swami Vivekananda
Light, Soul, Littles
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.93, SkyLight Paths Publishing

The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.

Swami Vivekananda
Karma, Vedas, Essentials
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2597, Manonmani Publishers

We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him].

Swami Vivekananda
Health, Men, Giving
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.451, Manonmani Publishers

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

Swami Vivekananda
Power, Firsts, Certain
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.75, Vivekananda Kendra

Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.

Swami Vivekananda
Names, Heaven, Doctrine
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.19, editionNEXT.com

In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not known the wonderful enjoyment, the blessing of chastity, the happiness of having a chaste, virtuous wife, or a chaste, virtuous husband. These people cannot feel that. And similarly they do not feel the intense jealousy of the chaste wife or husband, or the misery caused by unfaithfulness on either side, with all the heart-burnings and sorrows which believers in chastity experience. On one side, the latter gain happiness, but on the other, they suffer misery too.

Swami Vivekananda
Marriage, Husband, Heart
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.630, Manonmani Publishers

Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three.

Swami Vivekananda
Law, Space, Would Be
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.24, editionNEXT.com

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