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The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiring, Land, Generosity
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.11, Vivekananda Kendra

Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

Swami Vivekananda
Struggle, Men, Long
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.9, editionNEXT.com

When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Logical Arguments, Absolutes
Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

Swami Vivekananda
Names, Substance, Form
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3705, Manonmani Publishers

Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With us, religion is the only ground along which we can move.

Swami Vivekananda
Moving, Reform, Peculiar
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1222, Manonmani Publishers

Every Hindu knows that astrologers try to fix the caste of every boy or girl as soon as he or she is born. That is the real caste - the individuality, and Jyotisha (astrology) recognises that. And we can only rise by giving it full sway again. This variety does not mean inequality, nor any special privilege.

Swami Vivekananda
Girl, Real, Mean
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1766, Manonmani Publishers

All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.

Swami Vivekananda
Sleep, Progress, Awakening

Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life.

Swami Vivekananda
Power, World, Driving
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2623, Manonmani Publishers

Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you.

Swami Vivekananda
Strong, Young Friends, Advice
Source: tamilandvedas.com

We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.

Swami Vivekananda
Health, Mean, Animal
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.18, Advaita Ashrama

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Race, Growth
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, And Love, Able
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1984, Manonmani Publishers

There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life. Weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death

Swami Vivekananda
Mind, Weakness, Floating
Swami Vivekananda (1935). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

Swami Vivekananda
Business, Great Inventions, East

Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady intellect..." Never allow weakness to overtake your mind.

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

All law has its essence in causation.

Swami Vivekananda
Law, Essence, Causes
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.55, Advaita Ashrama

If you can think that infinite power, infinite knowledge and indomitable energy lie within you, and if you can bring out that power, you also can become like me.

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

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Suffering, Mud
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.389, editionNEXT.com

Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching shows the influence of Buddhism. His disciples perverted his teaching and carried it to such an extreme point that some of the later reformers were right in calling the Acharya's followers "crypto-buddhists".

Swami Vivekananda
Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism
Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . .

Swami Vivekananda
Karma, Suffering, Faults
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2540, Manonmani Publishers

If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Fall, Names
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3497, Manonmani Publishers

In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.

Swami Vivekananda
Business, Character, Giving
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.32, Vivekananda Kendra

The Vedas give information on various subjects. They have come together and form one book. And in later times, when other subjects were separated from religion - when astronomy and astrology were taken out of religion - these subjects, being connected with the Vedas and being ancient, were considered very holy.

Swami Vivekananda
Book, Taken, Astrology
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4503, Manonmani Publishers

That truth which you swallow from others will not be yours...you have to realize truth and work it our for yourself according to your own nature...All must struggle to be individuals-strong, standing on your own feet, thinking your own thoughts, realizing you own Self. No use swallowing doctrines others pass on-standing up together like soldiers in jail, sitting down together, all eating the same food, all nodding their heads at the same time. Variation is the sign of life. Sameness is the sign of death.

Swami Vivekananda
Strong, Struggle, Thinking

The human will stands beyond all circumstances. Everything must go down before the will, for that comes from God Himself; a pure and a strong will is omnipotent. Before it all the powers, even of nature, must bow down, succumb, and become its servants - the strong gigantic, infinite will in man.

Swami Vivekananda
Strong, Men, Bows

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