Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ)

Wisdom Quotes of Swami Vivekananda - a spiritual genius of commanding intellect & power who crammed immense labor & achievement into his short life (1863–1902).

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

What you only grasp intellectually may be overthrown by a new argument; but what you realise is yours forever. #SwamiVivekananda @ThisIsSwami

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

God, the only One who loves. His love knows no change and is ever ready to take us in. How long would any of you bear with me if I injured you? He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

As regards those of you that think that you understand Truth and Divinity and God in only one Prophet in the world, and not in any other, naturally, the conclusion which I draw is that you do not understand Divinity in anybody; you have simply swallowed words. #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

The lower the organism, the greater is its pleasure in the senses. Think of the lowest animals and the power of touch. Everything is touch. ... When you come to man, you will see that the lower the civilization of the man, the greater is the power of the senses. #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

What makes the difference between man and man is the difference in this Shraddha and nothing else. What make one man great and another weak and low is this Shraddha. My Master used to say, he who thinks himself weak will become weak, and that is true. #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

The little toleration that is in the world, the little sympathy that is yet in the world for religious thought, is practically here in the land of the Aryan, and nowhere else. It is here that Indians build temples for Mohammedans and Christians; nowhere else. #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

The sun requires no torch to make it visible. We do not light a candle to see the sun. When the sun rises, we instinctively become aware of its rising; and when a teacher of men comes to help us, the soul will instinctively know that it has found the truth. #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

God is spirit and He should be worshipped in spirit and in truth. Does spirit live only in heaven? What is spirit? We are all spirit. Why is it we do not realise it? What makes you different from me? Body and nothing else. Forget the body, and all is spirit. #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

The ideal of all education, all training, should be this man-making. But, instead of that, we are always trying to polish up the outside. What use in polishing up the outside when there is no inside? The end and aim of all training is to make the man grow. #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

When we mistake one thing for another, we always take the thing before us as the real, never the unseen; thus we mistake the object for the subject. The Atman never becomes the object. Mind is the internal sense, the outer senses are its instruments. #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

Do you think that man, the Infinite Spirit was born to be a slave to his eyes, his nose, and his ears? There is an Infinite, Omniscient Spirit behind that can do everything, break every bond; and that Spirit we are, and we get that power through love. #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

The races who did not pay much attention to the analysis of their own nature, never went beyond the material body as their all in all,

they only came to the conclusion that somehow or other, at some distant period of time, this body will become incorruptible. #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

The man propelled by his own feelings and his own senses, what does he know about work? He works, who is not propelled by his own desires, by any selfishness whatsoever. He works, who has no ulterior motive in view. He works, who has nothing to gain from work. #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

When man has seen himself as one with the Infinite Being of the universe, when all separateness has ceased, when all men and women, and gods and angels, all animals and plants, and the whole universe have melted into that Oneness, then all fear disappears. #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

The infinite is one and not many, and that one Infinite Soul is reflecting itself through thousands and thousands of mirrors, appearing as so many different souls. It is the same Infinite Soul, which is the background of the universe, that we call God. #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

I could not believe my own ears when I heard Western people talking so much of consciousness! Consciousness? What does consciousness matter! Why, it is nothing compared with the unfathomable depths of the subconscious and the heights of the superconscious! #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

Then he replied, "Do you believe that a man could believe in God and not go mad to get him? If a man sincerely believes that there is that immense, infinite mine of Bliss, and that It can be reached, would not that man go mad in his struggle to reach it ?" #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

When a gross thing moves, we catch it, and thus we naturally identify movement with things which are gross. But all the power is really in the fine. We do not see any movement in the fine, perhaps, because the movement is so intense that we cannot perceive it. #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

None will reach truth until he is strong. Every system, therefore, which weakens the mind, makes one superstitious, makes one mope, makes one desire all sorts of wild impossibilities, mysteries, and superstitions, I do not like, because its effect is dangerous. #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

When you love John, do you love John for his sake or for your sake? If you love him for your sake, you expect something from John. If you love him for his sake, you do not want anything from John. He can do anything he likes, and you will love him just the same. #SwamiVivekananda

[Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ) @ThisIsSwami]

Strength is the medicine which the poor must have when tyrannised over by the rich. Strength is the medicine that the ignorant must have when oppressed by the learned; and it is the medicine that sinners must have when tyrannised over by other sinners. #SwamiVivekananda