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When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it
— Swami Vivekananda
Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.
— Swami Vivekananda
All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form".
— Swami Vivekananda
Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already.You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.
— Swami Vivekananda
It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.
— Swami Vivekananda
If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice.
— Swami Vivekananda
Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal.
— Swami Vivekananda
Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.
— Swami Vivekananda
To struggle is difficult but to surrender is easy. Surrender is the beginning of devotion.
— Bhakti Charu Swami
Happiness is not be sought outside. It can never come from outside or from inside
because it simply is. It is always. Where? Everywhere. — Swami Satchidananda
because it simply is. It is always. Where? Everywhere. — Swami Satchidananda
In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires.
— Swami Parthasarathy
This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.
— Swami Vivekananda
Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.
— Radhanath Swami
It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion.
— Swami Vivekananda
We are all born cowards.
— Swami Vivekananda
The earth is enjoyed by heroes
— Swami Vivekananda
Responsibility means to perform our service properly,with proper attitude, behavior and words.
— Radhanath Swami
The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.
— Swami Vivekananda
Enthusiasm and eagerness give life to our devotional service.
— Radhanath Swami
To purify the heart is the one and only purpose that God has created this human life.
— Radhanath Swami
Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ... but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom.
— Swami Vivekananda
[Krishna answers:] The man who has given up all desires, who desires nothing, not even this life, nor freedom, nor gods, nor work, nor anything.
— Swami Vivekananda
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
— Swami Vivekananda
Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom.
— Swami Vivekananda
First-class religion teaches one how to love God without any motive. If I serve God for some profit, that is business-not love.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
— Swami Brahmananda
Attachment comes only where we expect a return.
— Swami Vivekananda
The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.
— Swami Vivekananda
A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing.
— Swami Satchidananda
And has found that the world, and the gods, and heaven are ... within his own Self.
— Swami Vivekananda
Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.
— Swami Vivekananda
The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.
— Swami Vivekananda
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak
— Swami Vivekananda
A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.
— Swami Vivekananda
Change can only be in the limited.
— Swami Vivekananda
Talk to yourself at least once in a Day, otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.
— Swami Vivekananda
One must know one's own secret.
— Swami Nithyananda
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.
— Swami Vivekananda
Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself
— Swami Vivekananda
We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.
— Swami Vivekananda
The road to salvation is through truth.
— Swami Vivekananda
The Absolute can never be thought of.
— Swami Vivekananda
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
— Swami Vivekananda
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
Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.
— Radhanath Swami
connect,surrender,and flow.
— Swami Chetanananda; Swami Chetanananda
A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
There is nothing holier in the world than to keep good company, because the good impressions will then tend to come to the surface.
— Swami Vivekananda
Bhakti cannot be attained, it is a gift.
— Radhanath Swami
Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.
— Swami Vivekananda
Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
— Swami Vivekananda
When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
— Swami Vivekananda
Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.
— Swami Vivekananda
The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.
— Swami Vivekananda
Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.
— Swami Vivekananda
According to our purpose, motivation and sincerity, which compose our devotion, Krishna reveals Himself to us.
— Radhanath Swami
ARISE, AWAKE AND STOP NOT TILL THE GOAL IS REACHED
— Swami Vivekananda
Beleive in yourself and the world will be at your feet
— Swami Vivekananda
Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it.
— Swami Vivekananda
[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.
— Swami Vivekananda
Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.
— Swami Vivekananda
There cannot be friendship without equality.
— Swami Vivekananda
The perfect man sees nothing but God.
— Swami Vivekananda
Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed.
— Radhanath Swami
The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.
— Swami Vivekananda
Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.
— Swami Vivekananda
It's not the world that distresses you but how you relate to it.
— Swami Parthasarathy
Humility is a natural symptom of those who love God.
— Radhanath Swami
The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation.
— Swami Vivekananda
To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
MIND is not a dustbin to keep anger, hatred and jealousy. But it is the treasure box to keep, love happiness and sweet memories.
— Swami Vivekananda
He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
— Swami Vivekananda
The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.
— Radhanath Swami
Arise,awake and donot stop until the goal is reached.
— Swami Vivekananda
Compassion is an essential element of love.
— Radhanath Swami
There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.
— Swami Vivekananda
This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.
— Swami Vivekananda
The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion.
— Swami Vivekananda
Let your heart be as big as it can possibly be.
— Swami Chetanananda
Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.
— Swami Vivekananda
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
— Swami Vivekananda
Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.
— Swami Muktananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
— Swami Vivekananda
Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.
— Swami Vivekananda
One will develop ruchi (liking) for chanting of the holy names, when one has compassion for each and every living being.
— Lokanatha Swami
Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.
— Swami Vivekananda
Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.
— Swami Vivekananda
Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.
— Swami Vivekananda
The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.
— Swami Vivekananda
Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing.
— Swami Vivekananda
What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment.
— Swami Vivekananda