Swami Vivekananda Quotes about Yoga

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Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to the cloud of virtue. He sees God. He becomes God and helps others to become the same. This is

Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to the cloud of virtue." He sees God. He becomes God and helps others to become the same. This is all I have to preach. Doctrines have been expounded enough. There are books by the million. Oh, for an ounce of practice!

Swami Vivekananda

Lying, Father, Yoga

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3828, Manonmani Publishers

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

Swami Vivekananda

Yoga, Practice, Bliss

Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.

Swami Vivekananda

Karma, Yoga, Secret

Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

Swami Vivekananda

Karma, Country, Yoga

Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

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

The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas.

Swami Vivekananda

Yoga, Attachment, Practice

Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In spirituality, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you. Have nothing to do with it. Mystery-mongering weakens the human brain. It has well-nigh destroyed Yoga, one of the grandest of sciences

Swami Vivekananda

Yoga, Brain, Secret

Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if I can rouse my countrymen, immersed in tamas, to stand on their own feet and be men inspired with the spirit of karma-yoga. I am a follower only of he or she who serves and helps others without caring for his own bhakti and mukti!

Swami Vivekananda

Karma, Yoga, Caring

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual, Real, Yoga

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion”, p.51, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)