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Change is the nature of all objective things.

Change is the nature of all objective things.

Swami Vivekananda

Change, Things Change, Objectives

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2394, Manonmani Publishers

What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing, what is the river then? It is the name of this series of changes.

Swami Vivekananda

Change, Names, Rivers

Swami Vivekananda (1932). “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”

Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.

Swami Vivekananda

Jesus, Men, Doe

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3125, Manonmani Publishers

We have to cover everything with the Lord himself, not a false sort of optimism, not by blinding our eyes to the evil, but by really seeing God in everything.

Swami Vivekananda

Eye, Evil, Optimism

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.59, editionNEXT.com

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else. Let us put forth all our energies to acquire that which never fails-our spiritual perfection. If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares.

Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual, Mistake, Struggle

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com

If you want to live, go back to Christ. You are not Christians. Go back to Christ. Go back to him who had nowhere to lay his head. Better be ready to live in rags with Christ than to live in palaces without him.

Swami Vivekananda

Christian, Want, Palaces

Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.129, Vivekananda Kendra

Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such.

Swami Vivekananda

Jesus, Christ

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3201, Manonmani Publishers

Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.

Swami Vivekananda

Mother, Dream, Jesus

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.30, editionNEXT.com

The Trinitarian Christ is elevated above us; the Unitarian Christ is merely a moral man; neither can help us. The Christ who is the Incarnation of God, who has not forgotten His divinity, that Christ can help us, in Him there is no imperfection.

Swami Vivekananda

Jesus, Men, Imperfection

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3095, Manonmani Publishers

Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy, for anger is loss of energy to the man who displays it. You should not allow your minds to come into those brain-combinations of anger and hatred.

Swami Vivekananda

Jesus, Loss, Men

Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.162, Vivekananda Kendra