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Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less.

Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less.

Swami Vivekananda
Change, Doe, Regard
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.38, editionNEXT.com

Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Destiny, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3564, Manonmani Publishers

Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate.

Swami Vivekananda
Soul, Mind, Progress
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.102, editionNEXT.com

Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson. In India boys and girls are taught to do this.

Swami Vivekananda
Girl, Boys, Thinking

Say - i am the Atman in which my lower ego has become merged for ever. Be perfect in this idea; and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: "Thou art That", "Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached!"

Swami Vivekananda
Art, Ideas, Long
Swami Vivekananda (1976). “Awakened India”

Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so.

Swami Vivekananda
Power, Accumulation, Diffusion
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1846, Manonmani Publishers

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Thinking, Way
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.194, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing else.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Way, Nazareth
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1557, Manonmani Publishers

Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let all the wealth of the earth come to your feet, or let you be made the poorest on earth. Let death come this moment or hundreds of years hence. Swerve not from the path you have taken. All good thoughts are immortal and go to make Buddhas and Christs.

Swami Vivekananda
Struggle, Taken, Years

Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

Swami Vivekananda
Mistake, Lying, Struggle
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.606, Manonmani Publishers

The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.

Swami Vivekananda
Gone, World, Idol Worship
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.160, Advaita Ashrama

Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by any and every handful of foreigners who chose to walk over our prostrate bodies? Because they had faith in themselves and we had not.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Years, People
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1113, Manonmani Publishers

Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body under every bondage, and society did not grow. The opposite is the case in the West - every liberty to society, none to religion. Now are falling off the shackles from the feet of Eastern society as from those of Western religion.

Swami Vivekananda
Fall, Feet, Opposites
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1992, Manonmani Publishers

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

Swami Vivekananda
Discipline, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2258, Manonmani Publishers

Since everything emanates from God, he is the embodied principle in every being. Each one of us is made from God. Tat twam asi - "You are That One" who is eternally blissful, that one principle manifesting itself as this variety of Creation.

Swami Vivekananda
God, Principles, Creation

When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it

Swami Vivekananda
Health, Age, Body

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Becoming, Divinity

Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. It is not religion. It is no better than atheism - a little less.

Swami Vivekananda
Running, Risk, Atheism
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1643, Manonmani Publishers

The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible.

Swami Vivekananda
Soul, Unity, Materials
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.90, editionNEXT.com

The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who want to enjoy the world a little with its frivolities? Just as our religion takes in all, so should our society. This is to be worked out by first understanding the true principles of our religion and then applying them to society. This is the slow but sure work to be done.

Swami Vivekananda
Crush, Spiritual, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1993, Manonmani Publishers

The person is only a phenomenon, the principle is behind it. Thus from both sides, simultaneously, we find the breaking down of personalities and the approach towards principles, the Personal God approaching the Impersonal, the personal man approaching the Impersonal Man.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Personality, Principles
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.87, editionNEXT.com

Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O Lord, let the world be full of charitable people!" - you mean, let the world be full of beggars also. Let the world be full of good works - let the world be full of misery. This is out-and-out slavishness!

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Thinking, People

Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.

Swami Vivekananda
Book, Self, Soul

Let us realise [that] we are the infinite power. Who put a limit to the power of mind? Let us realise we are all mind. Every drop has the whole of the ocean in it. That is the mind of man. The Indian mind reflects upon these [powers and potentialities] and wants to bring [them] all out. For himself he doesn't care what happens. It will take a great length of time [to reach perfection]. If it takes fifty thousand years, what of that!

Swami Vivekananda
Ocean, Men, Years
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.462, Manonmani Publishers

Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once.

Swami Vivekananda
Mother, Mind, Coward
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

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