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We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is

We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical religion.

Swami Vivekananda
Book, Giving, Doe
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2593, Manonmani Publishers

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Meditation, Helping
Source: tamilandvedas.com

Prana, according to the Vedanta, is the principle of life. It is like ether, an omnipresent principle; and all motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana. It is greater than Akasha, and through it everything lives. Prana is in the mother, in the father, in the sister, in the teacher, Prana is the knower.

Swami Vivekananda
Mother, Teacher, Father
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.27, editionNEXT.com

[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

Swami Vivekananda
Wise, Desire, Selfishness
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.432, Manonmani Publishers

We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end.

Swami Vivekananda
Ends, Form
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.168, Advaita Ashrama

Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Giving Up, Heaven
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been barred and the infinite tide behind is struggling to express itself. These struggles and competitions are but the results of our ignorance, because we do not know the proper way to unlock the gate and let the water in. This infinite tide behind must express itself; it is the cause of all manifestation.

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

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Men, Hands
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago”, p.12, editionNEXT.com

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.

Swami Vivekananda
Animal, Men, Looks
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.938, Manonmani Publishers

Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Trying, May
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.18, Advaita Ashrama

Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.

Swami Vivekananda
Prayer, Thinking, Meditation
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4515, Manonmani Publishers

Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time universal. It is while realising our individual nature that we realise even our national and universal nature. Each is an infinite circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. By practice one can feel universal Selfhood which is the essence of Hinduism. He who sees in every being his own Self is a Pandita (sage).

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Practice, Circles

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Agency, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

The fact is that we have many superstitions, many bad spots and sores on our body - these have to be excised, cut off, and destroyed - but these do not destroy our religion, our national life, our spirituality. Every principle of religion is safe, and the sooner these black spots are purged away, the better the principles will shine, the more gloriously. Stick to them.

Swami Vivekananda
Cutting, Shining, Black
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1191, Manonmani Publishers

"None is good, save One, that is, God", as the Lord Jesus bath said. The rest are only tools in His hands. "Gloria in Excelsis", "Glory unto God in the highest", and unto men that deserve, but not to such an undeserving one like me. Here "the servant is not worthy of the hire"; and a Fakir, especially, has no right to any praise whatsoever, for would you praise your servant for simply doing his duty?

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Men, Hands

To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.

Swami Vivekananda
Advice, Coward, Cowardice
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3943, Manonmani Publishers

Do not be afraid of a small beginning. great things come afterwards. Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren, but serve them. The brutal mania for leading has sunk many a great ships in the waters of life. Take care especially of that, i.e. be unselfish even unto death, and work.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Water Of Life
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1976, Manonmani Publishers

The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love.

Swami Vivekananda
Littles, Little Love, Renounce
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.953, Manonmani Publishers

The coward is an object to be pitied.

Swami Vivekananda
Coward, Cowardice, Objects
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4013, Manonmani Publishers

Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles - live on and on.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Principles, Elements
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.52, Vivekananda Kendra

Motion is always a relative thing. I move in relation to something else. Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one, and in relation to what can it move? There is nothing besides it. So this infinite Unit is unchangeable, immovable, absolute, and this is the Real Man.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Moving, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.17, editionNEXT.com

The wind of divine grace is always blowing. You just need to spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with your whole heart concentrated on it. Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Being-Consciousness-Bliss. What fear and anxiety have I?

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Night, Thinking

A man, and a cat, and a dog, are all animals. These particular examples, as man, or dog, or cat, are parts of a bigger and more general concept, animal. The man, and the cat, and the dog, and the plant, and the tree, all come under the still more general concept, life. Again, all these, all beings and all materials, come under the one concept of existence, for we all are in it.

Swami Vivekananda
Dog, Cat, Men
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.

Swami Vivekananda
Children, Social Reform, India
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1073, Manonmani Publishers

As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Beautiful
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.46, editionNEXT.com

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