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If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Inspiration, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is always and in itself wrong, but that in the different circumstances in which he is placed it may become even his duty to resist evil.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Evil, Different
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

Swami Vivekananda
Evil, Endurance, Resistance
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.

Swami Vivekananda
Perfection, Evil, Soul

For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna, for it comes as an open gate to heaven. But if you do not participate in this battle against evil, you will incur sin, violating your dharma and your honor.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, War, Evil

The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat of cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything.

Swami Vivekananda
Pain, Light, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.427, Manonmani Publishers

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

Swami Vivekananda
Marriage, Ignorance, Evil
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.107, Vivekananda Kendra

This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Thinking, Evil

The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Men, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody to grope towards, no devil to lay our blame upon, no Personal God to carry our burdens, when we are alone responsible, then we shall rise to our highest and best. I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil.

Swami Vivekananda
Responsibility, Fate, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (1935). “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”

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

Swami Vivekananda
Power, Evil, Universe
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2628, Manonmani Publishers

Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of perseverance), and destruction of everything. (Narada Bhakti Sutra)

Swami Vivekananda
Perseverance, Anger, Evil

"Why should I become angry just because another man has made a fool of himself. Do thou resist not evil!" That is what the lovers of God say. Whatever the world does, wherever it goes, has no influence [on them].

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Men, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2561, Manonmani Publishers

Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this to religion and morality, and you will find that the conquest of evil comes by the change in the subjective alone. That is how the Advaitic system gets its whole force, on the subjective side of man.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Evil, Sides

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Swami Vivekananda
Money, Men, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.7, editionNEXT.com

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

Swami Vivekananda
Evil, Add, World
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

Swami Vivekananda
Power, Evil, Used
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1207, Manonmani Publishers

What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for name and fame and covers his efforts to obtain them with the enamel of charity and good works. He is working for himself under the pretext of working for others. Every so-called charity is an encouragement of the very evil it claims to operate against.

Swami Vivekananda
Encouragement, Names, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2593, Manonmani Publishers

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

Swami Vivekananda
Evil, World, Mixtures
Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.161, New World Library

It is clear to us that, for good or for evil, our vitality is concentrated in our religion. You cannot change it. You cannot destroy it and put in its place another.

Swami Vivekananda
Evil, Vitality, Importance
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1103, Manonmani Publishers

In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

Swami Vivekananda
Two, Life And Death, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.104, Advaita Ashrama

It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Evil, Progress
Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Selections from Swami Vivekananda”

The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

Swami Vivekananda
Evil, Progress, World
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2100, Manonmani Publishers

Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune from all anger, I never feel angry. If am immune from all hatred, I never feel hatred.

Swami Vivekananda
Evil, Hatred, Misery

No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.

Swami Vivekananda
Law, Discipline, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3431, Manonmani Publishers

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