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A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.

A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Believe, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2205, Manonmani Publishers

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Way
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Life After Death: None Has Power To Destroy The Unchangeable”, p.22, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Passion
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2851, Manonmani Publishers

Man has infinite power within himself, and he can realise it - he can realise himself as the one infinite Self. It can be done; but you do not believe it. You pray to God and keep your powder dry all the time.

Swami Vivekananda
Believe, Men, Self
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3573, Manonmani Publishers

Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.

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

Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.

Swami Vivekananda
Causes, Effects
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.846, Manonmani Publishers

There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.

Swami Vivekananda
Strong, Men, Progress
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1845, Manonmani Publishers

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

Swami Vivekananda
Ideas, Would Be, Infinite
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.78, editionNEXT.com

The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Principles, Form
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2546, Manonmani Publishers

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

Swami Vivekananda
Ignorance, Dark, Littles
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.55, Manonmani Publishers

The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . .

Swami Vivekananda
Practice, Long, Stories

Ay! says the Vedanta, it is not the fault of God that this partiality exists, that this competition exists. Who makes it? We ourselves. There is a cloud shedding its rain on all fields alike. But it is only the field that is well cultivated, which gets the advantage of the shower; another field, which has not been tilled or taken care of cannot get that advantage. It is not the fault of the cloud.

Swami Vivekananda
Rain, Taken, Clouds
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1054, Manonmani Publishers

I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too nonsensical to believe. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. The force sent out will complete the circle and return to its starting place.

Swami Vivekananda
Believe, Circles, Progress
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2232, Manonmani Publishers

I must remark that what I mean by our religion working upon the nations outside of India comprises only the principles, the background, the foundation upon which that religion is built.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Foundation, Principles
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.15, editionNEXT.com

It is contrary to our principles to multiply organizations, since, in all conscience, there are enough of them. And when organizations are created they need individuals to look after them.

Swami Vivekananda
Organization, Principles, Needs
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2152, Manonmani Publishers

It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice. What will be the good of cramming the high - sounding dicta of the scriptures? You have first to grasp the teachings of the Shastras, and then to work them out in practical life. Do you understand? This is called practical religion.

Swami Vivekananda
Teaching, Practice, Principles
Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever was engaged in doing good to the world though superhuman by nature, whose renown there is none to equal in the three worlds, Sita's beloved, whose body of Knowledge Supreme was covered by devotion sweet in the form of Sita. (part of A Hymn To Shri Ramakrishna)

Swami Vivekananda
Sweet, Hymns, Three
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

Be proud that thou art an Indian, and proudly proclaim, "I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother." Say, "The ignorant Indian, the poor and destitute Indian, the Brahmin Indian, the Pariah Indian, is my brother."

Swami Vivekananda
Art, Brother, Ignorant
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1865, Manonmani Publishers

If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Men, House

"Learn good knowledge with all devotion from the lowest caste. Learn the way to freedom, even if it comes from a Pariah, by serving him. If a woman is a jewel, take her in marriage even if she comes from a low family of the lowest caste." Such is the law laid down by our great and peerless legislator, the divine Manu.

Swami Vivekananda
Jewels, Law, Way
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1078, Manonmani Publishers

We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it? Only the perfect man, the God-man. The rest are all idolaters. So long as we see this universe before us, with its forms and shapes, we are all idolaters. This is a gigantic symbol we are worshipping. He who says he is the body is a born idolater.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Long, Perfect
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.510, Manonmani Publishers

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Real, Yoga
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion”, p.51, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Secret, Realisation
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2364, Manonmani Publishers

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.

Swami Vivekananda
Race, Made, Ideals
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

Renunciation is in our blood.

Swami Vivekananda
Blood, Renunciation

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