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Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.

Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Meditation, Mind

The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or two things well with very little effort, having practiced them every day through generations.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Two, Discipline
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1872, Manonmani Publishers

The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying any heed to the capacities of the people at large, Buddhism has brought ruin upon India.

Swami Vivekananda
Buddhist, Buddhism, People
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2368, Manonmani Publishers

Salvation never will come through hope of reward.

Swami Vivekananda
Rewards, Salvation
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.119, editionNEXT.com

All real progress must be slow.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Progress
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2155, Manonmani Publishers

A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.

Swami Vivekananda
Teacher, Son, Needs
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2840, Manonmani Publishers

I reached Ghazipur three days ago. Here I am putting up in the house of Babu Satish Chandra Mukherji, a friend of my early age. The place is very pleasant. Close by flows the Ganga, but bathing there is troublesome, for there is no regular path, and it is hard work wading through sands.

Swami Vivekananda
Hard Work, Here I Am, House
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2717, Manonmani Publishers

The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation.

Swami Vivekananda
Infinite, Absolutes, Universe
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.41, Advaita Ashrama

The Absolute cannot be divided.

Swami Vivekananda
Divided, Absolutes
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)”, p.41, editionNEXT.com

Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.

Swami Vivekananda
Divinity, Individual, Born
Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a crow and crane by his intense will, produced by anger?

Swami Vivekananda
Anger, Psychics, Crow
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.307, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes.

Swami Vivekananda
Anger, Sorrow, Senses
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes.

Swami Vivekananda
Philosophy, Joy, Never Change
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.72, editionNEXT.com

The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion.

Swami Vivekananda
Natural, States, Ultimate
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.210, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but it is only in theory. I was so fortunate as to find one who was able to carry theory into practice. He had the most wonderful faculty of carrying everything into practice which he thought was right.

Swami Vivekananda
Rights, Talking, Practice
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.22, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Self, Ego
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2282, Manonmani Publishers

Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.

Swami Vivekananda
Happiness, Men, Inner Peace
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2384, Manonmani Publishers

The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Religious
Swami Vivekananda (1968). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.

Swami Vivekananda
Self, Renunciation
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2035, Manonmani Publishers

Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others.

Swami Vivekananda
Jealous, Looks, Charity
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2376, Manonmani Publishers

Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates.

Swami Vivekananda
Anger, Chains, Gates
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1790, Manonmani Publishers

There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Soul, Salvation
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1279, Manonmani Publishers

The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited to all grades of religious aspiration and progress. It contains all the ideals in their perfect form. For example, the ideal of Shanta or blessedness is to be found in Vasishtha; that of love in Krishna; that of duty in Rama and Sita; and that of intellect in Shukadeva. Study the characters of these and of other ideal men. Adopt one which suits you best.

Swami Vivekananda
Religious, Character, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2614, Manonmani Publishers

Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles. If the principles are there, the persons will come by the thousands and millions. If the principle is safe, persons like Buddha will be born by the hundreds and thousands. But if the principle is lost and forgotten and the whole of national life tries to cling round a so-called historical person, woe unto that religion, danger unto that religion!

Swami Vivekananda
Illustration, Woe Unto, Historical
Swami Vivekananda “Lectures Vol. 3”, Jazzybee Verlag

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it. So we have to take ourselves where we are as materialists, and must take the help of matter and go on slowly until we become real spiritualists, and feel ourselves spirits, understand the spirit, and find that this world which we call the infinite is but a gross external form of that world which is behind.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Men, Talking
Swami Vivekananda (1966). “Complete Works”

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