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Remember the words of Christ: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. These words are literally true, not figures or fiction. They were the outflow of the heart's

Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." These words are literally true, not figures or fiction. They were the outflow of the heart's blood of one of the greatest sons of God who have ever come to this world of ours; words which came as the fruit of realisation, from a man who had felt and realised God himself; who had spoken with God, lived with God, a hundred times more intensely than you or I see this building.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Heart, Son
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.26, editionNEXT.com

"The Kingdom of Heaven is within you." Where goest thou to seek for the Kingdom of God, asks Jesus of Nazareth, when it is there, within you? Cleanse the spirit, and it is there. It is already yours. How can you get what is not yours? It is yours by right. You are the heirs of immortality, sons of the Eternal Father.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Father, Son
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.75, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” This sentence alone would save mankind, if all books and prophets were lost. This purity of heart will bring the vision of God. It is the theme of the whole music of this universe. In purity is no bondage. Remove the veils of ignorance by purity; then we manifest ourselves as we really are and know that we were never in bondage. The seeing of 'many' is the great sin of all the world. See all as Self and love all; let all idea of separateness go.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Book, Blessed
"Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda".

Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and be. I would not be exactly like Jesus. It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Struggle, Unnecessary
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.438, Manonmani Publishers

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Desire, Kingdoms
Vivekananda (Swami) (1925). “Epistles”

"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

Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen hundred years men have not understood that saying. They make Christ the saviour of men. He is God and we are worms!

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Father, Men
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Heart, Blood
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.138, Advaita Ashrama

The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Church, Trying
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians do not understand Solomon's song. They call it prophecy symbolising Christ's love for the Church. They think it nonsense and father some story upon it.

Swami Vivekananda
Christian, Song, Jesus
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2610, Manonmani Publishers

I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.

Swami Vivekananda
Christian, Jesus, Character
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.138, Advaita Ashrama

"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

The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Opposites, Way
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.151, Advaita Ashrama

Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest. God was everywhere, in all beings, before Christ; but in Christ we became conscious of Him. This is God. The third is bliss, the Holy Spirit.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Father, Son
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3655, Manonmani Publishers

Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Giving Up, Heaven
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

"None is good, save One, that is, God", as the Lord Jesus bath said. The rest are only tools in His hands. "Gloria in Excelsis", "Glory unto God in the highest", and unto men that deserve, but not to such an undeserving one like me. Here "the servant is not worthy of the hire"; and a Fakir, especially, has no right to any praise whatsoever, for would you praise your servant for simply doing his duty?

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Men, Hands

Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Giving Up, Father
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

It is an irrational claim to believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ and at the same time to hold that the greater part of his teachings have no application at the present time. If you say that the reason why the powers do not follow them that believe (as Christ said they would) is because you have not faith enough and are not pure enough-that will be all right. But to say that they have no application at the present time is to be ridiculous.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Believe, Teaching
Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing else.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Way, Nazareth
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1557, Manonmani Publishers

If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Fall, Names
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3497, Manonmani Publishers

The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk. "Written", perhaps, is not the proper word. It would be more appropriate to say that each letter of the book is marked deep with the heart's blood of the great soul who had renounced all for his love of Christ.

Swami Vivekananda
Christian, Jesus, Book
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you can worship. God in His absolute nature is not to be worshipped. Worshipping such God would be nonsense. We have to worship Jesus Christ, the human manifestation, as God. You cannot worship anything higher than the manifestation of God. The sooner you give up the worship of God separate from Christ, the better for you.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Giving Up, Men
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Years, Two
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2608, Manonmani Publishers

You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they will burn their way into your brain and you will never get away from them!

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Brain, Way
Swami Vivekananda (1992). “Awakened India”

Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Mean, Renunciation
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3685, Manonmani Publishers

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