Quotes of Swami Vivekananda On Principles

Quotes of Swami Vivekananda On Principles:

         

       Principles are universal, not persons. Therefore stick to the principles.

• Prana, according to the Vedanta, is the principle of life. It is like ether, an omnipresent principle; and all motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana. It is greater than Akasha, and through it everything lives. Prana is in the mother, in the father, in the sister, in the teacher, Prana is the knower.

• Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.
• Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work — this is the only way. Go on; remember — patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail — Mother will never leave you, and all blessings will be yours.

• The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.

• The fact is that we have many superstitions, many bad spots and sores on our body — these have to be excised, cut off, and destroyed — but these do not destroy our religion, our national life, our spirituality. Every principle of religion is safe, and the sooner these black spots are purged away, the better the principles will shine, the more gloriously. Stick to them.

• The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.

• The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.

• The person is only a phenomenon, the principle is behind it. Thus from both sides, simultaneously, we find the breaking down of personalities and the approach towards principles, the Personal God approaching the Impersonal, the personal man approaching the Impersonal Man.

• The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .

• The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the make-up of the minds of every nation, not through writings, but through persons.

• The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.

• The world cares little for principles. They care for persons.

• Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.

• To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere, let them read, let them become familiar with the great principles underlying these ideas, and it is ninety-nine to one that the charm will come over them, and fascination will be the result. Slow and silent, as the gentle dew that falls in the morning, unseen and unheard yet producing a most tremendous result, has been the work of the calm, patient, all-suffering spiritual race upon the world of thought.

• We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that.

• We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

• We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving principles, not the hundreds of superstitions that we have been hugging to our breasts for centuries.