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Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, People, Ego

This rascal ego must be obliterated.

Swami Vivekananda
Ego, Rascals
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.

Swami Vivekananda
Rising Up, Ego, Cobras
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2644, Manonmani Publishers

Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.

Swami Vivekananda
Ideas, Ego, Energy
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2790, Manonmani Publishers

One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total.

Swami Vivekananda
Self, Ego, Doe
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2110, Manonmani Publishers

Out of Mahat comes universal egoism.

Swami Vivekananda
Ego, Egoism, Universal
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.862, Manonmani Publishers

The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent? There is no reason why I should.[Source] The root of that degeneration is egotism - to think that one is just as great as any other, indeed!

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Roots, Ego

The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm.

Swami Vivekananda
Kings, Ego, World
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff

Swami Vivekananda
Ego, Mind, Stuff
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1786, Manonmani Publishers

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.

Swami Vivekananda
Ego, Feelings, Gains
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3431, Manonmani Publishers

This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.

Swami Vivekananda
Ego, Body, Universal
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.115, editionNEXT.com

This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness.

Swami Vivekananda
Ego, Body, Causes
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.864, Manonmani Publishers

To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.

Swami Vivekananda
Giving Up, Ego, World
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Ego, Body
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.37, Advaita Ashrama

When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will

Swami Vivekananda
Ego, Brain, Substance
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.864, Manonmani Publishers

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

Swami Vivekananda
Pride, Ego, Etc
Swami Vivekananda (1926). “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”

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

Swami Vivekananda
Independent, Men, Ego
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1395, Manonmani Publishers

There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.

Swami Vivekananda
Long, Ego, Stores
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.135, Vivekananda Kendra

Did Buddha teach that the many was real and the ego unreal, while orthodox Hinduism regards the One as the real, and the many as unreal?" the Swami was asked. "Yes", answered the Swami. "And what Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and I have added to this is, that the Many and the One are the same Reality, perceived by the same mind at different times and in different attitudes.

Swami Vivekananda
Attitude, Real, Ego
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3717, Manonmani Publishers

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

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