Swami Vivekananda Quotes about Past

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The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

Swami Vivekananda

Past, Astrology, Determined

Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.38, New World Library

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Past, Wish

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.7, Advaita Ashrama

The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

Swami Vivekananda

Believe, Past, Doubt

Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.202, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

Swami Vivekananda

Past, Today, Causes

Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspiring, Karma, Past

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2374, Manonmani Publishers

All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite future is before you.

Swami Vivekananda

Strength, Past, Want

Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.159, Vivekananda Kendra

Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.

Swami Vivekananda

Karma, Men, Past

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.62, editionNEXT.com

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

Swami Vivekananda

Past, Achievement, Progress

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1118, Manonmani Publishers

No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.

Swami Vivekananda

Taken, Past, Destiny

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.46, editionNEXT.com

You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds

Swami Vivekananda

Children, Past, Hands

Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Essentials of Hinduism”, p.16, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves. The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

Swami Vivekananda

Fashion, Believe, Past

Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.202, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)