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Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Giving, Want
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.38, Advaita Ashrama

An allopath comes and treats cholera patients and gives them his medicines. The Homeopath comes and gives his medicines and cures perhaps more than the allopath does because the Homoeopath does not disturb the patients but allows the nature to deal with them.

Swami Vivekananda
Medicine, Giving, Doe

Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Giving, Selfless
"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.

Swami Vivekananda
Believe, Giving, Trying
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1423, Manonmani Publishers

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

Swami Vivekananda
Giving, Thank God, Development
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3177, Manonmani Publishers

In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

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

Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

Swami Vivekananda
Pain, Self, Giving
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.

Swami Vivekananda
Names, Giving, Desire
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.61, Advaita Ashrama

The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Giving, Realizing

Give everything and look for no return.

Swami Vivekananda
Giving, Looks, Return
Source: tamilandvedas.com

Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?

Swami Vivekananda
Giving, Secret, Vedas
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1589, Manonmani Publishers

The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.

Swami Vivekananda
Yoga, Helping Others, Giving
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1062, Manonmani Publishers

We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy.

Swami Vivekananda
Philosophy, Heart, Giving
Source: tamilandvedas.com

Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

Swami Vivekananda
Giving, Bounty
Source: tamilandvedas.com

You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Giving, Lions
Swami Vivekananda (1994). “Swami Vivekananda, a Hundred Years Since Chicago: A Commemorative Volume”

Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as that.

Swami Vivekananda
Beautiful, Sleep, Giving
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1639, Manonmani Publishers

The God which cannot give me food in this world, cannot give me Heaven in the other world

Swami Vivekananda
Other Worlds, Giving, Heaven

I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.

Swami Vivekananda
Light, Giving, Forever
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3994, Manonmani Publishers

We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving principles, not the hundreds of superstitions that we have been hugging to our breasts for centuries.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Mean, Giving
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1189, Manonmani Publishers

None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty

Swami Vivekananda
Giving, Liberty, Ready
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”

I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till I have finished it. And oh, how shall I speak of him? Oh, his love for me!

Swami Vivekananda
Giving, Done, His Love
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.236, Advaita Ashrama

Strength, strength for us. What we need is strength, who will give us strength? There are thousands to weaken us, and of stories we have had enough.

Swami Vivekananda
Strength, Giving, Needs
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.163, editionNEXT.com

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Giving, Charity
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1880, Manonmani Publishers

That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God, that intense faith in the immortal soul, is in you. I challenge anyone to give it up. You cannot. You may try to impose upon me by becoming materialists, by talking materialism for a few months, but I know what you are; if I take you by the hand, back you come as good theists as ever were born. How can you change your nature?

Swami Vivekananda
Hands, Talking, Giving

To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social life, there is all that wealth can buy or power can bring, there is all that the senses can enjoy; and among all these various occupations of life and all this searching after something which can give yet a little more whetting to the cloyed senses - among all these, there is perhaps a little bit of religion. But here, in India, religion is the one and the only occupation of life.

Swami Vivekananda
World Religions, Giving, Occupation
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1039, Manonmani Publishers

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