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Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.

Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Criticism, Triumph
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2005, Manonmani Publishers

We must travel; we must go to foreign parts. We must see how the engine of society works in other countries, and keep free and open communication with what is going on in the minds of other nations, if we really want to be a nation again.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Country, Communication
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1904, Manonmani Publishers

Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that a little sugar - coating of untruth helps the spread of truth are mistaken and will find in the long run that a single drop of poison poisons the whole mass ... The man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Running, Lying
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3810, Manonmani Publishers

To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Humble, Ignorance
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2832, Manonmani Publishers

We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Men, Feet

For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds. This is the only god that is awake, our own race - "everywhere his hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers everything." All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the Virât? When we have worshiped this, we shall be able to worship all other gods.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Mother, Sleep
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.263, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune from all anger, I never feel angry. If am immune from all hatred, I never feel hatred.

Swami Vivekananda
Evil, Hatred, Misery

Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

Swami Vivekananda
Ignorance, Light, Shining
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.650, Manonmani Publishers

Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.

Swami Vivekananda
Glasses, Leaving, World
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2774, Manonmani Publishers

The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence, and that One Existence, when it passes through the forms of time, space, causation, is called by different names, buddhi, fine matter, gross matter, all mental and physical forms. Everything in the universe is that One, appearing in various forms. When a little part of it comes, as it were, into this network of time, space and causation, it takes forms. Take off the network, and it is all one.

Swami Vivekananda
Self, Names, Space
Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

There cannot be friendship without equality.

Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.72, Vivekananda Kendra

This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.

Swami Vivekananda
School, Heaven, Earth
Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.

Swami Vivekananda
Taken, Character, Mean

Who will bring light to the poor? Who will travel from door to door bringing education to them? Let these people be your God-think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly. The Lord will show you the way.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Light, Doors
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2008, Manonmani Publishers

I am what I am, and what I am is always due to him; whatever in me or in my words is good and true and eternal came to me from his mouth, his heart, his soul. Sri Ramakrishna is the spring of this phase of the earth's religious life, of its impulses and activities. If I can show the world one glimpse of my Master, I shall not have lived in vain.

Swami Vivekananda
Religious, Spring, Heart

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Inspiring, Heart
"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Years, Two
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2608, Manonmani Publishers

Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.

Swami Vivekananda
Race, Charity, Tests
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.68, SkyLight Paths Publishing

To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful
Swami Vivekananda (1999). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Reason Why, Trouble
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

Love makes no distinction between man and man, between an Aryan and a Mlechchha, between a Brâhmana and a Pariah, nor even between a man and a woman. Love makes the whole universe as one's own home. True progress is slow but sure. Work among those young men who can devote heart and soul to this one duty - the duty of raising the masses of India. Awake them, unite them, and inspire them with this spirit of renunciation; it depends wholly on the young people of India.

Swami Vivekananda
Home, Heart, Men

The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols."

Swami Vivekananda
Idols, Doe, Body
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3690, Manonmani Publishers

This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Doe, Idol Worship
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1354, Manonmani Publishers

Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form discarding all external help, do so, but why do you condemn others who cannot do the same?"

Swami Vivekananda
Brother, Idol Worship, Helping
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1354, Manonmani Publishers

Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.

Swami Vivekananda
Personality, Growth, Too Much
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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