Knowledge is nothing but finding unity in the midst of diversity.
- Swami Vivekananda
{CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : The Vedanta}
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โFoolish indeed is the man who living on the banks of the Ganga digs a little well to drink water.โ So is the man who begs of God material objects.
- Swami Vivekananda
{CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : Bhakti (Delivered at Lahore)}
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โฆThe first step for the pure Vedantist is to be Abhih, fearless. Weakness has got to go before a man dares to become a Vedantist.
- Swami Vivekananda
{CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : Bhakti (Delivered at Lahore)}
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Everything here in the sense-world is dependent and interdependent, relative and correlative, the existence of one depending on the other.
- Swami Vivekananda
{CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : The Vedanta}
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If a man goes towards what is false, it is because he cannot get what is true. Therefore the only method of correcting what is false is by supplying him with what is true. Do this, and let him compare. You give him the truth, and there your work is done.
- Swami Vivekananda
{CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : The Common Bases of Hinduism}
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Have faith in man first, and then having faith in him, believe that if there are defects in him, if he makes mistakes, if he embraces the crudest and the vilest doctrines, believe that it is not from his real nature that they come, but from the want of higher ideals.
- Swami Vivekananda
{CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : The Common Bases of Hinduism}
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Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.
- Swami Vivekananda
{CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : The Common Bases of Hinduism}
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Do not be dragged away out of this Indian life; do not for a moment think that it would be better for India if all the Indians dressed, ate, and behaved like another race.
- Swami Vivekananda
{CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : The Common Bases of Hinduism}
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Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.
- Swami Vivekananda
{CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : The Common Bases of Hinduism}
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We have indeed many things to learn from others, yea, that man who refuses to learn is already dead.
- Swami Vivekananda
{CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : The Common Bases of Hinduism}
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Bring out through your own exertions what you have, but do not imitate, yet take what is good from others. We have to learn from others.
- Swami Vivekananda
{CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : The Common Bases of Hinduism}
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Ay, when a man has begun to hate himself, then the last blow has come. When a man has begun to be ashamed of his ancestors, the end has come.
- Swami Vivekananda
{CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : The Common Bases of Hinduism}
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The Western man is a body first, and then he has a soul; with us a man is a soul and spirit, and he has a body. Therein lies a world of difference.
- Swami Vivekananda
{CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : The Common Bases of Hinduism}
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โฆThere is no regeneration for India until you be spiritual. Not only so, but upon it depends the welfare of the whole world.
- Swami Vivekananda
{CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : The Common Bases of Hinduism}
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Then and then alone you are a Hindu when every man who bears the name, from any country, speaking our language or any other language, becomes at once the nearest and the dearest to you.
- Swami Vivekananda
{CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : The Common Bases of Hinduism}
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Mark me, then and then alone you are a Hindu when the very name sends through you a galvanic shock of strength.
- Swami Vivekananda
{CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : The Common Bases of Hinduism}
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