Friday, 4 September 2015
Swami Vivekananda - Analysis of Raja Yoga- Swami Vivekananda speech
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Thursday, 13 August 2015
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
Swami Vivekananda on Himself - Movie
Swami Vivekananda on Himself - Movie
Swami Vivekananda on Himself - Movie
Swami Vivekananda on Secret of Concentration
Swami Vivekananda on Secret of Concentration:
Swami Vivekananda on Secret of Concentration
Swami Vivekananda 1893 Chicago Speech Part I
Swami Vivekananda 1893 Chicago Speech Part I
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Wednesday, 24 June 2015
Swami Vivekananda Life Story Video /Vivekananda Life
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Tuesday, 23 June 2015
QUOTES BY SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON LIFE,RELIGION,LEARNING,GOD AND DIVINE
QUOTES BY SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON LIFE,RELIGION,LEARNING,GOD AND DIVINE:
A Quote by Swami Vivekananda on life
Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny. Pray day and night for them. I care more to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich.
Swami Vivekananda
A Quote by Swami Vivekananda on Freedom
Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
Swami Vivekananda
A Quote by Swami Vivekananda on divine and image
“We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formulas help you to realize the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, temples, whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward towards the brutes."
Swami Vivekananda
A Quote by Swami Vivekananda on Religion
Religion is a question of being and becoming, not of believing.
Swami Vivekananda
QUOTES BY SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON LIFE,RELIGION,LEARNING,GOD AND DIVINE:
A Quote by Swami Vivekananda on learning
"Education is the manifestation of what is already within man"
Swami Vivekananda
A Quote by Swami Vivekananda on knowledge, consciousness, and mind
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Swami Vivekananda
A Quote by Swami Vivekananda on spirituality, soul, and wisdom
You have to grow from inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Swami Vivekananda
QUOTES BY SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON LIFE,SOUL,SPIRITUALITY,KNOWLEDGE,NATURE,YOGA AND MEDITATION
QUOTES BY SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON LIFE,SOUL,SPIRITUALITY,KNOWLEDGE,NATURE,YOGA AND MEDITATION:
A Quote by Swami Vivekananda on freedom
We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.
Swami Vivekananda
A Quote by Swami Vivekananda on life, living, teaching, and wisdom
You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side - you can only help. It is a manifestation from within; it develops its own nature - you can only take away obstructions.
Swami Vivekananda
A Quote by Swami Vivekananda on universal, god, shiva, and worship
"This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva. And if he sees Shiva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Shiva in him, without thinking of his caste or creed or race or anything, with him Shiva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples"
Swami Vivekananda
A Quote by Swami Vivekananda on vivekananda, knowledge, consciousness, and mind
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Swami Vivekananda
A Quote by Swami Vivekananda on spirituality, soul, and wisdom
You have to grow from inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Swami Vivekananda
QUOTES BY SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON LIFE,SOUL,SPIRITUALITY,KNOWLEDGE,NATURE, YOGA AND MEDITATION:
A Quote by Swami Vivekananda
Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.
Swami Vivekananda
A Quote by Swami Vivekananda on peace, bliss, states-of-being, and true-nature
After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains--one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it.
Swami Vivekananda
A Quote by Swami Vivekananda on purpose, yoga, and meditation
“Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea; make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave other ideas alone.”
Swami Vivekananda
A Quote by Swami Vivekananda on purpose, yoga, and meditation
“The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state.
There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others.”
Swami Vivekananda
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS|SWAMI VIVEKANANDA BEST QUOTES COLLECTION
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS|SWAMI VIVEKANANDA BEST QUOTES COLLECTION:
QUESTION 1. — Whom can we call a Guru?
SWAMIJI. — He who can tell your past and future is your Guru.
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Q.2 — If unity is the only reality, how could duality which is perceived by all every moment have arisen?
SWAMIJI. — Perception is never dual; it is only the representation of perception that involves duality. If perception were dual, the known could have existed independently of the knower, and vice versa.
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Q.3 — What is the true meaning of the assertion that we should depend on ourselves?
SWAMIJI. — Here self means the eternal Self. But even dependence on the non-eternal self may lead gradually to the right goal, as the individual self is really the eternal Self under delusion.
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Q. 4— How can one have Bhakti?
SWAMIJI. — There is Bhakti within you, only a veil of lust-and-wealth covers it, and as soon as that is removed Bhakti will manifest by itself.
SWAMIJI. — There is Bhakti within you, only a veil of lust-and-wealth covers it, and as soon as that is removed Bhakti will manifest by itself.
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Q.5 — How is harmonious development of character to be best effected?
SWAMIJI. — By association with persons whose character has been so developed.
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Q.6— Is the relation between concepts and words necessary and immutable, or accidental and conventional?
SWAMIJI. — The point is exceedingly debatable. It seems that there is a necessary relation, but not absolutely so, as appears from the diversity of language. There may be some subtle relation which we are not yet able to detect.
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Q.7 — Is the division of time into four Yugas astronomical or arbitrary calculation?
SWAMIJI. — There is no mention of such divisions in the Vedas. They are arbitrary assumptions of Paurânika times.
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Q.8 — What should be our attitude to the Vedas?
SWAMIJI. — The Vedas, i.e. only those portions of them which agree with reason, are to be accepted as authority. Other Shâstras, such as the Purânas etc., are only to be accepted so far as they do not go against the Vedas. All the religious thoughts that have come subsequent to the Vedas, in the world, in whatever part of it have been derived from the Vedas.
SWAMIJI. — The Vedas, i.e. only those portions of them which agree with reason, are to be accepted as authority. Other Shâstras, such as the Purânas etc., are only to be accepted so far as they do not go against the Vedas. All the religious thoughts that have come subsequent to the Vedas, in the world, in whatever part of it have been derived from the Vedas.
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Q.9 — What should be the principle to be followed in working within India?
SWAMIJI .— First of all, men should be taught to be practical and physically strong. A dozen of such lions will conquer the world, and not millions of sheep can do so. Secondly, men should not be taught to imitate a personal ideal, however great.
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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS|SWAMI VIVEKANANDA BEST QUOTES COLLECTION:
Q.10 —Can a man attain Mukti by image-worship?
SWAMIJI. — Image-worship cannot directly give Mukti; it may be an indirect cause, a help on the way. Image-worship should not be condemned, for, with many, it prepares the mind for the realisation of the Advaita which alone makes man perfect.
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Q. 11— Does the Kundalini really exist in the physical body?
SWAMIJI. — Shri Ramakrishna used to say that the so-called lotuses of the Yogi do not really exist in the human body, but that they are created within oneself by Yoga powers.
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Q.12 — Is retrograde reincarnation from the human stage possible?
SWAMIJI. — Yes. Reincarnation depends on Karma. If a man accumulates Karma akin to the beastly nature, he will be drawn thereto.
SWAMIJI. — Yes. Reincarnation depends on Karma. If a man accumulates Karma akin to the beastly nature, he will be drawn thereto.
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Q.13 — What should be our highest ideal of character?
SWAMIJI. — Renunciation.
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Q.14 — What is Maya?
SWAMIJI. — There is only one thing, call it by any name — matter, or spirit. It is difficult or rather impossible to think the one independent of the other. This is Maya, or ignorance.
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Q.15 — Brahman and Maya cannot be cognised simultaneously. How could the absolute reality of either be proved as arising out of the one or the other?
SWAMIJI. — It could be proved only by realisation. When one realises Brahman, for him Maya exists no longer, just as once the identity of the rope is found out, the illusion of the serpent comes no more.
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Q.16 — Is Mâyâ without beginning and end?
SWAMIJI. — Maya is eternal both ways, taken universally, as genus; but it is non-eternal individually.
SWAMIJI. — Maya is eternal both ways, taken universally, as genus; but it is non-eternal individually.
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Q. 17—Can salvation (Mukti) be obtained without the grace of God?
SWAMIJI. — Salvation has nothing to do with God. Freedom already is.
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Q.18 — What is Mukti (liberation)?
SWAMIJI. — Mukti means entire freedom — freedom from the bondages of good and evil. A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has stuck into the foot, another thorn is requisitioned, and when the thorn is taken out, both are thrown away. So the bad tendencies are to be counteracted by the good ones, but after that, the good tendencies have also to be conquered.
SWAMIJI. — Mukti means entire freedom — freedom from the bondages of good and evil. A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has stuck into the foot, another thorn is requisitioned, and when the thorn is taken out, both are thrown away. So the bad tendencies are to be counteracted by the good ones, but after that, the good tendencies have also to be conquered.
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Q.19 — What is the proof of the self in us not being the product of the body etc.?
SWAMIJI. — The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.
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Q. 20— Is Mâyâvâda different from Advaitâvada?
SWAMIJI. — No. They are identical. There is absolutely no other explanation of Advaitavada except Mayavada.
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Q.21 — Why should a man serve Ishvara?
SWAMIJI. — If you once admit that there is such a thing as Ishvara (God), you have numberless occasions to serve Him. Service of the Lord means, according to all the scriptural authorities, remembrance (Smarana). If you believe in the existence of God, you will be reminded of Him at every step of your life.
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Q. 22—Who is a true Jnâni, and who is a true Bhakta?
SWAMIJI. — The true Jnani is he who has the deepest love within his heart and at the same time is a practical seer of Advaita in his outward relations. And the true Bhakta (lover) is he who, realising his own soul as identified with the universal Soul, and thus possessed of the true Jnana within, feels for and loves everyone. Of Jnana and Bhakti he who advocates one and denounces the other cannot be either a Jnani or a Bhakta, but he is a thief and a cheat.
SWAMIJI. — The true Jnani is he who has the deepest love within his heart and at the same time is a practical seer of Advaita in his outward relations. And the true Bhakta (lover) is he who, realising his own soul as identified with the universal Soul, and thus possessed of the true Jnana within, feels for and loves everyone. Of Jnana and Bhakti he who advocates one and denounces the other cannot be either a Jnani or a Bhakta, but he is a thief and a cheat.
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Q. 23— Some say, "First of all become a Siddha (one who has realised the Truth), and then you have the right to Karma, or work for others", while others say that one should work for others even from the beginning. How can both these views be reconciled?
SWAMIJI. — You are confusing one thing with the other. Karma means either service to humanity or preaching. To real preaching, no doubt, none has the right except the Siddha Purusha, i.e. one who has realised the Truth. But to service every one has the right, and not only so, but every one is under obligation to serve others, so long as he is accepting service from others.
SWAMIJI. — You are confusing one thing with the other. Karma means either service to humanity or preaching. To real preaching, no doubt, none has the right except the Siddha Purusha, i.e. one who has realised the Truth. But to service every one has the right, and not only so, but every one is under obligation to serve others, so long as he is accepting service from others.
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Q.24 —How is it possible for God who is infinite to be limited in the form of a man (as an Avatâra)?
SWAMIJI. — It is true that God is infinite, but not in the sense in which you comprehend it. You have confounded your idea of infinity with the materialistic idea of vastness. When you say that God cannot take the form of a man, you understand that a very, very large substance or form (as if material in nature), cannot be compressed into a very, very small compass. God's infinitude refers to the unlimitedness of a purely spiritual entity, and as such, does not suffer in the least by expressing itself in a human form.
Thursday, 4 June 2015
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA QUOTES ON LIFE AND PEOPLE
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA QUOTES ON LIFE AND PEOPLE:
Let people speak out their own opinions, why should we object?
Each work has to pass through these stages — ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance--Swami Vivekananda
Let people say whatever they will — "Men (who wrongly criticise) are to be treated as worms!" as Shri Ramakrishna used to say. Let there be no disparity between what you profess and what you do. . .
Let us remember the words of Kâlidâsa: "Fools blame the actions of the great , because they are extraordinary and their reasons past the finding-out of ordinary mortals."
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA QUOTES ON LIFE AND PEOPLE
- According to Swami Vivekananda, we should not be afraid or stop or work because of mere criticism or opposition. "Let people say whatever they like", we should.
- Let people say whatever they like
- Let people say whatever they like, stick to your own convictions— Swami Vivekananda
- Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success--Swami Vivekananda
According to Swami Vivekananda -----
- Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth--Swami Vivekananda
- Let people say whatever they like, stick to your own convictions, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They say, "Have faith in this fellow or that fellow", but I say, "Have faith in yourself first", that's the way. Have faith in yourself—all power is in you—be conscious and bring it out. Say, "I can do everything." "Even the poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it." Beware! No saying "nay", no negative thoughts! Say, "Yea, Yea," "So'ham, So'ham"—"I am He! I am He!"
- . . .let people say what they will. Let anyone write anything for or against me in the papers; you shouldn't take the slightest notice--Swami Vivekananda
Sunday, 22 March 2015
Swami Vivekananda's quotes on education |Quotes on Education A to Z
Swami Vivekananda's quotes on education |Quotes on Education A to Z
Swami Vivekananda's quotes on education
A—E
Education is the manifestation
of the perfection already in man.
—Swami Vivekananda
of the perfection already in man.
—Swami Vivekananda
All the wealth of the world cannot help one little Indian village if the people are not taught to help themselves. Our work should be mainly educational, both moral and intellectual.
Educate and raise the masses, and thus alone a nation is possible.
Education, education, education alone! Travelling through many cities of Europe and observing in them the comforts and education of even the poor people, there was brought to my mind the state of our own poor people, and I used to shed tears. What made the difference? Education was the answer I got. Through education comes faith in one's own Self, and through faith in one's own Self the inherent Brahman is waking up in them.
Education has yet to be in the world, and civilisation — civilisation has begun nowhere yet.
Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].
Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.
F—J
How can there be/any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?
How can there be/any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?
If education is identical with information, the libraries are the greatest sages in the world, and encyclopaedias are the Rishis.
If the mountain does not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain. If the poor cannot come to education, education must reach them at the plough, in the factory, everywhere.
If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him.
Swami Vivekananda's quotes on education |Quotes on Education A to Z
K—S
. . . Life is a series of fights and disillusionments. . . . The secret of life is not enjoyment, but education through experience. But, alas, we are called off the moment we begin really to learn. That seems to be a potent argument for a future existence. . . . Everywhere it is better to have a whirlwind come over the work. That clears the atmosphere and gives us a true insight into the nature of things. It is begun anew, but on adamantine foundations. . . .
. . . Life is a series of fights and disillusionments. . . . The secret of life is not enjoyment, but education through experience. But, alas, we are called off the moment we begin really to learn. That seems to be a potent argument for a future existence. . . . Everywhere it is better to have a whirlwind come over the work. That clears the atmosphere and gives us a true insight into the nature of things. It is begun anew, but on adamantine foundations. . . .
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn." That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Yes, learn we must many things from the West: but there are fears as well.
T—Z
The education which does not help the common mass of people to equip themselves for the struggle for life, which does not bring out strength of character, a spirit of philanthropy, and the courage of a lion— is it worth of the name? Real education is that which enables one to stand on one's own legs.
The first duty is to educate the people.
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. The man who influences, who throws his magic, as it were, upon his fellow-beings, is a dynamo of power, and when that man is ready, he can do anything and everything he likes; that personality put upon anything will make it work.
The only way to bring about the levelling of caste is to appropriate the culture, the education which is the strength of the higher castes.
There is only one purpose in the whole of life — education. Otherwise what is the use of men and women, land and wealth?
Swami Vivekananda's quotes on education |Quotes on Education A to Z
To me the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collecting of facts. If I had to do my education over again, and had any voice in the matter, I would not study facts at all. I would develop the power of concentration and detachment, and then with a perfect instrument I could collect facts at will. Side by side, in the child, should be developed the power of concentration and detachment.
We have had a negative education all along from our boyhood. We have only learnt that we are nobodies. Seldom are we given to understand that great men were ever born in our country. Nothing positive has been taught to us. We do not even know how to use our hands and feet!
We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.
You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side—you can only help. It is a manifestation from within; it develops its own nature—you can only take away obstructions.
You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge—even in a boy it is so—and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher. We have to do only so much for the boys that they may learn to apply their own intellect to the proper use of their hands, legs, ears, eyes, etc., and finally everything will become easy.
On man-making education
Swami Vivekananda's quotes on education |Quotes on Education A to Z
Swami Vivekananda's quotes on man-making education
No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is a man-making religion that we want. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want.[Source]
The education that you are getting now has some good points, but it has a tremendous disadvantage which is so great that the good things are all weighed down. In the first place it is not a man-making education, it is merely and entirely a negative education. A negative education or any training that is based on negation, is worse than death. The child is taken to school, and the first thing he learns is that his father is a fool, the second thing that his grandfather is a lunatic, the third thing that all his teachers are hypocrites, the fourth that all the sacred books are lies! By the time he is sixteen he is a mass of negation, lifeless and boneless. And the result is that fifty years of such education has not produced one original man in the three Presidencies. Every man of originality that has been produced has been educated elsewhere, and not in this country, or they have gone to the old universities once more to cleanse themselves of superstitions.
Gurugriha Vasa or Personal contact between the teacher and the disciple
My idea of education is personal contact with the teacher - Gurugriha-Vâsa. Without the personal life of a teacher there would be no education. Take your Universities. What have they done during the fifty years of their existences. They have not produced one original man. They are merely an examining body. The idea of the sacrifice for the common weal is not yet developed in our nation.
My idea of education is personal contact with the teacher - Gurugriha-Vâsa. Without the personal life of a teacher there would be no education. Take your Universities. What have they done during the fifty years of their existences. They have not produced one original man. They are merely an examining body. The idea of the sacrifice for the common weal is not yet developed in our nation.
One should live from his very boyhood with one whose character is like a blazing fire and should have before him a living example of the highest teaching. Mere reading that it is a sin to tell a lie will be of no use. Every boy should be trained to practice absolute Brahmacharya, and then, and then only, faith —Shraddha—will come. Otherwise, why will not one who has no Shraddha speak an untruth? In our country, the imparting of knowledge has always been through men of renunciation. Later, the Pandits, by monopolising all knowledge and restricting it to the tols, have only brought the country to the brink of ruin. India had all good prospects so long as Tyâgis (men of renunciation) used to impart knowledge.
Defects of current education system
Swami Vivekananda's quotes on the defects of the current education system
It is almost wholly one of defects. Why, it is nothing but a perfect machine for turning out clerks. I would even thank my stars if that were all. But no! See how men are becoming destitute of Shraddhâ and faith. They assert that the Gita is only an interpolation, and that the Vedas are but rustic songs! They like to master every detail concerning things and nations outside of India, but if you ask them, they do not know even the names of their own forefathers up to the seventh generation, not to speak of the fourteenth!
The education that you are getting now has some good points, but it has a tremendous disadvantage which is so great that the good things are all weighed down. In the first place it is not a man-making education, it is merely and entirely a negative education. A negative education or any training that is based on negation, is worse than death. The child is taken to school, and the first thing he learns is that his father is a fool, the second thing that his grandfather is a lunatic, the third thing that all his teachers are hypocrites, the fourth that all the sacred books are lies! By the time he is sixteen he is a mass of negation, lifeless and boneless. And the result is that fifty years of such education has not produced one original man in the three Presidencies
Sunday, 11 January 2015
100 Inspirational and Motivational Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
100 Inspirational and Motivational Quotes by Swami Vivekananda:
- Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.
- Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.
- Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come all the greatest geniuses of the world, and history can only repeat itself. Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work.
- All the powers in the universe are already ours . It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
- Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success that is way great spiritual giants are produced.
- If superstition enters, the brain is gone.
- Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be; if you think yourselves impure, impure you will be; if you think yourselves pure, pure you will be.
Top 100 Inspirational and Motivational Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
- Even when you sleep, keep the sword of discrimination at the head of your bed, so that covetousness cannot approach you even in dream.
- Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.
- Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.
- There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
- There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion ‘I am God’ cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.
- Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.
- Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
- Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.
Swami Vivekananda Best Inspirational and Motivational Quotes Top 100
- “Face the brutes.” That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
- Don’t look back – forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience. Then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
- To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.
- 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. I will take no nay. Do you understand?
- Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.
- A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
- Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege.
- Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.
- Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it."
Swami Vivekananda Quotes
- Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
- Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.
- You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
- To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.
- "The earth is enjoyed by heroes"— this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero . Always say, "I have no fear".
- If you can think that infinite power, infinite knowledge and indomitable energy lie within you, and if you can bring out that power, you also can become like me.
- You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
100 Motivational and Inspirational Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
- Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all.
- Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come all the greatest geniuses of the world, and history can only repeat itself. Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work.
- Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.
- Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.
- Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.
- No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.
- Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong, strong you will be.
- There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion ‘I am God’ cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.
- This is the great fact: strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.
Swami Vivekananda Quotes
- Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.
- Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.
- All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
- Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
- Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
- Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.
- Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.
- Cowards only sin , brave men never, no, not even in mind.
- Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all.
Best Collection 100 Inspirational and Motivational Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.
- Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.
- To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.
- Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
- I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must be a giant— must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause— if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.
- Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.
Swami Vivekananda Quotes
- Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work— this is the only way.
- No need for looking behind. FORWARD! We want infinite energy, infinite zeal, infinite courage, and infinite patience, then only will great things achieved.
- As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.
- This, I have seen in life – those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
- Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
- Let people say whatever they like , stick to your own convictions, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They say, 'Have faith in this fellow or that fellow', but, I say, 'Have faith in yourself first'. that's the way.
Swami Vivekananda Quotes
- As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.
- This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.
- To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. 'I will drink the ocean', says the persevering soul, 'at my will mountains will crumble up.' Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.
- Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin ? to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
- You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
- Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
- I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must be a giant— must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause— if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.
- The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
- All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Quotes by Swami Vivekananda -100 Inspirational and Motivational
- Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.
- Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
- Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind. Therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
- Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.
Swami Vivekananda Quotes
- Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
- A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
- 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. I will take no nay. Do you understand?
- When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.
- Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and dies. But the Self we see as Vivekananda is never born and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality.
- Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear.’ Tell this to everyone – ‘Have no fear.’
- "The earth is enjoyed by heroes"— this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero . Always say, "I have no fear".
Swami Vivekananda Quotes
- The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do. When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.
- The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.
- We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
- Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work— this is the only way.
- That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
- Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
- ‘Comfort’ is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being ‘comfortable’.
- All the powers in the universe are already ours . It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Swami Vivekananda Quotes
- It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.
- Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
- Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.
- However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.
- Do not be afraid of a small beginning. great things come afterwards. Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren, but serve them. The brutal mania for leading has sunk many a great ships in the waters of life. Take care especially of that, i.e. be unselfish even unto death, and work.
Swami Vivekananda Quotes
- The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
- Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.
- Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin ? to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
- Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
- So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.
- We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
- Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.
Swami Vivekananda Quotes
Thursday, 8 January 2015
Swami Vivekananda—Laws of the Life | Universe
Swami Vivekananda—Laws of the Life | Universe:
Laws of the universe
In the following quotes Swamiji did not mention the phrase "law of life", but these are "laws of the universe"—
If conformity is the law of the universe, every part of the universe must have been built on the same plan as the whole. . .
Interdependence is the law of the whole universe.
Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.
Swami Vivekananda—
Swami Vivekananda—Laws of Life | Nature
Swami Vivekananda—Laws of Life | Nature:
Laws of nature
These are the laws of nature mentioned by Swami Vivekananda—
- If a stone falls, it has been thrown by a devil or a ghost, says the ignorant man, but the scientific man says it is the law of nature, the law of gravitation.
- It is a mysterious law of nature that as soon as the field is ready the seed must come, as soon as the soul wants religion, the transmitter of religious force must come. "The seeking sinner meeteth the seeking Saviour." When the power that attracts in the receiving soul is full and ripe, the power which answers to that attraction must come.
- It is not the law of nature to be always taking gifts with outstretched hands like beggars. To give and take is the law of nature.
- See how, from nebulae, the sun, moon, and stars are produced; then they dissolve and go back to nebulae. The same is being done everywhere. The plant takes material from the earth, dissolves, and gives it back. Every form in this world is taken out of surrounding atoms and goes back to these atoms. It cannot be that the same law acts differently in different places. Law is uniform. Nothing is more certain than that. If this is the law of nature, it also applies to thought. Thought will dissolve and go back to its origin. Whether we will it or not, we shall have to return to our origin which is called God or Absolute. We all came from God, and we are all bound to go back to God.
- The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present. The soul will go on evolving up or reverting back from birth to birth and death to death. But here is another question: Is man a tiny boat in a tempest, raised one moment on the foamy crest of a billow and dashed down into a yawning chasm the next, rolling to and fro at the mercy of good and bad actions — a powerless, helpless wreck in an ever-raging, ever-rushing, uncompromising current of cause and effect; a little moth placed under the wheel of causation which rolls on crushing everything in its way and waits not for the widow's tears or the orphan's cry? The heart sinks at the idea, yet this is the law of Nature.
- Uniformity is the rigorous law of nature; what once happened can happen always.
Swami Vivekananda—Laws of Life | Karma
Swami Vivekananda—Laws of Life | Karma :
Laws of Karma
These are the laws of Karma mentioned by Swami Vivekananda—
- Man is not bound by any other laws excepting those which he makes for himself. Our thoughts, our words and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw round ourselves, for good or for evil. Once we set in motion a certain power, we have to take the full consequences of it. This is the law of Karma.
- Nobody has ever seen anything produced out of nothing; if anything arises in the mind, that also must have been produced from something. When we speak of free will, we mean the will is not caused by anything. But that cannot be true, the will is caused; and since it is caused, it cannot be free -- it is bound by law. That I am willing to talk to you and you come to listen to me, that is law. Everything that I do or think or feel, every part of my conduct or behaviour, my every movement -- all is caused and therefore not free. This regulation of our life and mind -- that is the law of Karma.
- The law governing functions of the human mind is called the law of Karma.
- The law of Karma is that every action must be followed sooner or later by an effect.
- The law of Karma is the law of causation.
- The law of Karma means the law of causation, of inevitable cause and sequence. Wheresoever there is a cause, there an effect must be produced; this necessity cannot be resisted, and this law of Karma, according to our philosophy, is true throughout the whole universe.
- You are all bound by the law of Karma. . .
- 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. That makes the differentiation. This is the law of Karma. Each one of us is the maker of his own fate.
Swami Vivekananda -Laws of life
Swami Vivekananda -Laws of life:
Laws of life
In the following quotes the phrase "law of life" is directly mentioned.
All hatred is "killing the self by the self"; therefore, love is the law of life.
- All love is expansions all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live. This is the secret of selfless love, selfless action and the rest.
- In the material physical world, expansion is life, and contraction is death. Whatever ceases to expand ceases to live. Translating this in the moral world we have: If one would expand, he must love, and when he ceases to love he dies. It is your nature; you must, because that is the only law of life. Therefore, we must love God for love's sake, so we must do our duty for duty's sake; we must work for work's sake without looking for any reward — know that you are purer and more perfect, know that this is the real temple of God.
- What is life but growth, i.e. expansion, i.e. love? Therefore all love is life, it is the only law of life; all selfishness is death, and this is true here or hereafter. It is life to do good, it is death not to do good to others. Ninety per cent of human brutes you see are dead, are ghosts — for none lives, my boys, but he who loves. Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad — then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help, and indomitable energy. Struggle, struggle, was my motto for the last ten years. Struggle, still say I. When it was all dark, I used to say, struggle; when light is breaking in, I still say, struggle. Be not afraid, my children. Look not up in that attitude of fear towards that infinite starry vault as if it would crush you. Wait! In a few hours more, the whole of it will be under your feet. Wait, money does not pay, nor name; fame does not pay, nor learning. It is love that pays; it is character that cleaves its way through adamantine walls of difficulties.
"Laws Of Life" by Swami Vivekananda
"Laws Of Life" by Swami Vivekananda:
Introduction
In this article we'll try to write on the laws of life mentioned by Swami Vivekananda. Swami Vivekananda has thousands of quotations and sayings, how can we conclude which is a "law of life" and which is a general quotation? For example, a quote like "All the powers in the universe are already ours. . . " or "Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. . " — these are definitely motivational words but not laws of life.
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