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Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.

Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.

Swami Vivekananda
Ignorance, Sorrow, Weakness
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.347, 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

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

Swami Vivekananda
Book, Ignorance, Negative
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3157, Manonmani Publishers

Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying upon differences, and that all good comes from faith in equality, in the underlying sameness and oneness of things. This is the great Vedantic ideal.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Ignorance, Differences
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1116, Manonmani Publishers

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Ignorance, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.206, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.

Swami Vivekananda
Believe, Ignorance, Clouds
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1752, Manonmani Publishers

The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Strength, Ignorance
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.72, editionNEXT.com

This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by ignorance that makes us feel heat and cold, pain and pleasure.

Swami Vivekananda
Pain, Ignorance, Simple
Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.119, Jazzybee Verlag

Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been barred and the infinite tide behind is struggling to express itself. These struggles and competitions are but the results of our ignorance, because we do not know the proper way to unlock the gate and let the water in. This infinite tide behind must express itself; it is the cause of all manifestation.

Swami Vivekananda
Struggle, Ignorance, Water
Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.143, Jazzybee Verlag

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

Swami Vivekananda
Ignorance, Knowledge, Limits
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.55, Manonmani Publishers

If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that to you? Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self, the God of the universe. Say - "I am Existence Absolute, Bliss Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, I am He," and like a lion breaking its cage, break your chain and be free forever. What frightens you, what holds you down? Only ignorance and delusion; nothing else can bind you. You are the Pure One, the Ever-blessed.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Blessed, Ignorance
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Jnana Yoga”, p.118, Jazzybee Verlag

To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Humble, Ignorance
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2832, Manonmani Publishers

Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

Swami Vivekananda
Ignorance, Light, Shining
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.650, Manonmani Publishers

We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so - and - so and Mr. so - and - so. But all nature is giving this delusion the lie every moment. I am not that little man or little woman cut off from all else; I am the one universal existence. The soul in its own majesty is rising up every moment and declaring its own intrinsic Divinity.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Lying, Ignorance
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3605, Manonmani Publishers

And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

Swami Vivekananda
Strength, Ignorance, Causes
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1086, Manonmani Publishers

Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.

Swami Vivekananda
Ignorance, Fighting, Winning
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.79, SkyLight Paths Publishing

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness."

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiring, Ignorance, Bombshells
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.52, editionNEXT.com

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

Swami Vivekananda
Ignorance, Dark, Littles
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.55, Manonmani Publishers

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