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What we want now is an immense awakening of Râjasika energy, for the whole country is wrapped in the shroud of Tamas. The people of this land must be fed and clothed-must be awakened -must be made more fully active.

What we want now is an immense awakening of Râjasika energy, for the whole country is wrapped in the shroud of Tamas. The people of this land must be fed and clothed-must be awakened -must be made more fully active. Otherwise they will become inert, as inert as trees and stones. So, I say, eat large quantities of fish and meat, my boy!

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Boys, Land

Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

Swami Vivekananda
Karma, Country, Yoga
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Country
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2076, Manonmani Publishers

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, India, World
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.166, Advaita Ashrama

So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Dog, Long
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “My Life and Mission”, p.20, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent, renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - good to themselves and the country at large

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Lying, Character
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.165, Vivekananda Kendra

It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children of such a country.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Children, Land
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1196, Manonmani Publishers

The one eternal religion is applied to the opinions of various minds and various races. There never was my religion or yours, my national religion or your national religion; there never existed many religions, there is only the one. One infinite religion existed all through eternity and will ever exist, and this religion is expressing itself in various countries in various ways.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Race, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1587, Manonmani Publishers

Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar country? The poor Pariah is not allowed to pass through the same street as the high-caste man, but if he changes his name to a hodge-podge English name, it is all right; or to a Mohammedan name, it is all right.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Men, Names
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1204, Manonmani Publishers

I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Saint, Philosopher
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2008, Manonmani Publishers

Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Country
Swami Vivekananda (1996). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Three, Generations

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Can we see God? Of course not. Can we know God? Of course not. If God can be known, He will be God no longer. Knowledge is limitation. But I and my Father are one: I find the reality in my soul. These ideas are expressed in some religions, and in others only hinted. In some they were expatriated. Christ's teachings are now very little understood in this country. If you will excuse me, I will say that they have never been very well understood.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Jesus, Father
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.296, Manonmani Publishers

How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Progress, Spread
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Hero, Goes On

These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every soul, irrespective of nation, country, or position.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Children, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2011). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.56, Duncan Baird Publishers

There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin."

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Ideas, Age
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.31, Advaita Ashrama

Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Law
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1412, Manonmani Publishers

We want Shraddhâ, we want faith in our own selves. Strength is life, weakness is death. 'We are the Âtman, deathless and free; pure, pure by nature. Can we ever commit any sin? Impossible!' - such a faith is needed. Such a faith makes men of us, makes gods of us. It is by losing this idea of Shraddha that the country has gone to ruin.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Country, Men

You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is simply marvellous! Whatever it be, the book is the centre round which human allegiance gathers. Not one religion is living today but has a book. With all its rationalism and tall talk, humanity still clings to the books. In your country every attempt to start a religion without a book has failed. In India sects rise with great success, but within a few years they die down, because there is no book behind them. So in every other country.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Book, Years

In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.

Swami Vivekananda
Marriage, Country, Husband
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.61, Advaita Ashrama

Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it. This is one phase of my line of thought. In time, I hope to bring them all out, but at present I find I have a mission in this country also. Moreover, I expect help in this country and from here alone. But up to date I could not do anything except spreading my ideas. Now I want that a similar attempt be made in India.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Strong, Moving
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1767, Manonmani Publishers

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, India, Movement
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1849, Manonmani Publishers

This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived... Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that look forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much higher, than she ever was.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Home, Land
Source: tamilandvedas.com

I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.

Swami Vivekananda
Uplifting, Girl, Country

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