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May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.

May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.

Swami Vivekananda
Blessing, Progress, World
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3387, Manonmani Publishers

Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.

Swami Vivekananda
Forgiveness, Forgiving, Degrees
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.138, Vivekananda Kendra

This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: 'Keep yourself holy, and pure.' So deeply has this been recognized in India, that there we even speak of adultery in marriage, except when marriage is consummated in prayer.

Swami Vivekananda
Marriage, Prayer, India
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.924, Manonmani Publishers

We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere words without meaning, words which we repeat like parrots, and it has become quite natural for us to do so. We cannot help it.

Swami Vivekananda
Childhood, Brotherhood, Charity
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.57, editionNEXT.com

I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India, there runs a mutual and cordial string of eternal faith in the perfection of humanity, and I believe in it myself. And let that faith be spread over the whole land.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Running, Philosophy
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.408, editionNEXT.com

If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the harmony of all ideals. He will be established on earth if we keep alive that spirit of harmony here. We must see to it that people of all creeds and sects, from the Brahmana down to the Chandala, may come here and find their respective ideals manifested.

Swami Vivekananda
Math, People, Alive
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.276, Advaita Ashrama

Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.

Swami Vivekananda
Two, World, Spirituality
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.43, Vivekananda Kendra

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

Swami Vivekananda
Brain, May, Idol Worship
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1461, Manonmani Publishers

Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite.

Swami Vivekananda
Space, Infinite, Form
Swami Vivekananda (1926). “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”

The idol is the expression of religion.

Swami Vivekananda
Expression, Idols, Idol Worship
Swami Vivekananda (1926). “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”

The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.

Swami Vivekananda
Secret, Vision, Trying
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, May, Idol Worship
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.33, editionNEXT.com

For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did not dare utter what they thought. Many thought the case hopeless and the cause of religion lost once and for ever. But the tide has turned and to the rescue has come - what? The study of comparative religions. By the study of different religions we find that in essence they are one.

Swami Vivekananda
Essence, Different, Tides

I hear, Western people say, "The world was created for us." If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created for them and that man is a most sinful animal, because he does not allow him (the tiger) to catch him easily. The worm that crawls under your feet today is a God to be.

Swami Vivekananda
Book, Writing, Animal
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Dust, Land

All misery and pain come from attachment.

Swami Vivekananda
Pain, Attachment, Misery And Pain
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.63, SkyLight Paths Publishing

Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Epitome, All Things
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

Man is the greatest being that ever can be.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Human Beings
Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, World, Highest
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3494, Manonmani Publishers

Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form.

Swami Vivekananda
Causes, Form, Fine
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2215, Manonmani Publishers

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.

Swami Vivekananda
Law, Space, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2581, Manonmani Publishers

Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his eyes. Onward! Onward! There is no time to care for name, or fame, or Mukti, or Bhakti! We shall look to these some other time. Now in this life let us infinitely spread his lofty character, his sublime life, his infinite soul. This is the only work - there is nothing else to do.

Swami Vivekananda
Character, Eye, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2007). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization.

Swami Vivekananda
Lying, Growth, Realization
Swami Vivekananda (2001). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the Father, but they have seen the Son. And he that hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also.

Swami Vivekananda
Buddhist, Father, Son
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.21, Advaita Ashrama

Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.

Swami Vivekananda
Odds, Minorities, Gains
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1677, Manonmani Publishers

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