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Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

Swami Vivekananda
Ethics, Ethical, Bases
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.7, editionNEXT.com

If I am immune against all anger, I never feel angry.

Swami Vivekananda
Anger, Feels, Immune
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.53, editionNEXT.com

If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state. These states are always interchangeable. Eternal happiness and misery are a child's dream.

Swami Vivekananda
Dream, Children, Anger
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.411, Manonmani Publishers

The atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. "What is the use of [external restraint]?"

Swami Vivekananda
Law, Atoms, Use
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.428, Manonmani Publishers

This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman).

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

My son, hold fast! Do not care for anybody to help you. Is not the Lord infinitely greater than all human help? Be holy--trust in the Lord, depend on him always, and you are on the right track. Nothing can prevail against you.

Swami Vivekananda
Son, Track, Care
Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.224, SkyLight Paths Publishing

When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning.

Swami Vivekananda
Mad, Needs, Caves
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.25, editionNEXT.com

You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.

Swami Vivekananda
Eye, Dark, Light
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.108, Advaita Ashrama

National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.

Swami Vivekananda
Race, Names, Degradation
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4312, Manonmani Publishers

There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of woman is improved. It is not possible for a bird to fly on only one wing. There is no hope for that family or country where there is no estimation of women, where they live in sadness. For this reason, they have to be raised first.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Sadness, Wings

"If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence.

Swami Vivekananda
Winning, Heaven, Good Man
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.332, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study.

Swami Vivekananda
Training, Mind, Special
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.16, Advaita Ashrama

The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.

Swami Vivekananda
Uplifting, Country, Real
Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced school of Western theologians. The student of Sanskrit philosophy knows where the wind is blowing from, but it matters not whence the power comes so longs as it brings new life.

Swami Vivekananda
Philosophy, School, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1743, Manonmani Publishers

How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

Swami Vivekananda
Evil, Credit, Blame
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.

Swami Vivekananda
Misery, Blame
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.81, SkyLight Paths Publishing

Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our slavery; so much so that we long to perpetuate it, and go on with "body" "body" for ever. Do not cling to the idea of "body", do not look for a future existence in any way like this one; do not love or want the body, even of those dear to us.

Swami Vivekananda
Ideas, Long, Hug
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

It is a constant change. Not one body is constant.

Swami Vivekananda
Body, Human Body, Constant
Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.33, Jazzybee Verlag

It is the want that creates the body.

Swami Vivekananda
Body, Want, Human Body
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Sadhanas or Preparations for Higher Life”, p.5, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

Swami Vivekananda
Business, Peculiar, Matter
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2082, Manonmani Publishers

Change can only be in the limited.

Swami Vivekananda
Change
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.541, Manonmani Publishers

Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction.

Swami Vivekananda
Change, Would Be, Contradiction
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.380, Manonmani Publishers

Everybody is changing.

Swami Vivekananda
Change
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.292, editionNEXT.com

As thou thinkest, so art thou.

Swami Vivekananda
Art
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2578, Manonmani Publishers

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Swami Vivekananda
Character, Men, Ideas
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.95, Vivekananda Kendra

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