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The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often ignorant of religion, because they too read the wrong book-the book outside.

The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often ignorant of religion, because they too read the wrong book-the book outside.

Swami Vivekananda
Book, Ignorant, Sage

Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share.

Swami Vivekananda
Fall, Light, Grumbling
"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

Charity never faileth.

Swami Vivekananda
Charity
Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

Swami Vivekananda
Discipline, Tree, Would Be
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything.

Swami Vivekananda
Religious, Two, Political
Swami Vivekananda (2003). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion.

Swami Vivekananda
Causes, Delusion, Effects
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.947, Manonmani Publishers

Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

Swami Vivekananda
Luck, Trying, Blame

We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, "Oh, the world is a devil's world." We curse others and say, "What infatuated fools!" But why should we be in such a world, if we really are so good? If this is a devil's world, we must be devils also; why else should we be here? "Oh, the people of the world are so selfish!" True enough; but why should we be found in that company, if we be better? Just think of that.

Swami Vivekananda
Selfish, Thinking, People
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.480, Manonmani Publishers

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

Swami Vivekananda
Iron, Gold, Slavery
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.453, Manonmani Publishers

You nourish your minds by reading books. There is no good in doing that unless you hold it also as a sacrifice to the whole world. For the whole world is one; you are rated a very insignificant part of it, and therefore it is right for you that you should serve your millions of brothers rather than aggrandise this little self

Swami Vivekananda
Brother, Book, Reading
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1341, Manonmani Publishers

Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.

Swami Vivekananda
Business, Delay, Shuffling
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2859, Manonmani Publishers

Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but when it comes to preaching religion, they cannot come near the Asiatic, whose business it has been all the time, and he knows it, and he does not use too much machinery.

Swami Vivekananda
Business, Army, Government
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.48, editionNEXT.com

We can form no idea of the millions of pounds that are spent every year in the making of dress in the West. The dress-making business has become a regular science. What colour of dress will suit with the complexion of the girl and the colour of her hair, what special feature of her body should be disguised, and what displayed to the best advantage-these and many other like important points, the dressmakers have seriously to consider. Again, the dress that ladies of very high position wear, others have to wear also, otherwise they lose their caste! This is FASHION.

Swami Vivekananda
Girl, Fashion, Business

An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.

Swami Vivekananda
Religious, Atheist, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2383, Manonmani Publishers

Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman—all is Atman! Give up the identification with the body, and stand up!

Swami Vivekananda
Sex, Giving Up, Men
Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.

Swami Vivekananda
Marriage, Institutions, Guarded

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness."

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiring, Ignorance, Bombshells
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.52, editionNEXT.com

Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute.

Swami Vivekananda
Soul, Stopping, Creation
Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Sleep, Burning
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.60, editionNEXT.com

Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

Swami Vivekananda
Giving, Liberty, Energy
"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am good, it is the existence first, and then that becomes colored with the quality of goodness. If I am evil, it is the existence first, and that becomes colored with the quality of badness. That existence is first, last, and always; it is never lost but ever present.

Swami Vivekananda
Evil, Quality, Lasts
Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran.

Swami Vivekananda
Vedas, Done, Want
Swami Vivekananda (1994). “Swami Vivekananda, a Hundred Years Since Chicago: A Commemorative Volume”

Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists.

Swami Vivekananda
Rvs, India, Materialism
Swami Vivekananda, (2013). “Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda”, p.56, Read Books Ltd

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Swami Vivekananda
Practice, Pounds, Theory
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2266, Manonmani Publishers

You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they will burn their way into your brain and you will never get away from them!

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Brain, Way
Swami Vivekananda (1992). “Awakened India”

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