Swami Vivekananda on Rama or Ramachandra

Swami Vivekananda on Rama or Ramachandra:

• I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came in India as Krishna, Rama, and Buddha, and that He will come again. It can almost be demonstrated that after each 500 years the world sinks, and a tremendous spiritual wave comes, and on the top of the wave is a Christ.

                         - Swami Vivekananda

• He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever was engaged in doing good to the world though superhuman by nature, whose renown there is none to equal in the three worlds, Sita's beloved, whose body of Knowledge Supreme was covered by devotion sweet in the form of Sita.

                                                                   - Swami Vivekananda

• Rama and Sita are the ideals of the Indian nation.

                                                                      - Swami Vivekananda

• Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideals son, the ideals husband, the ideal father, and, above all, the ideals all, the ideal king, this Rama has been presented before us by the great saint Valmiki.

                                                                 - Swami Vivekananda

• "Where there is Rama, there is no Kama; where there is Kama, there Rama is not. Night and day can never exist together." The voice of the ancient sages proclaim to us, "If you desire to attain God, you will have to renounce Kâma-Kânchana (lust and possession).

                                                                       - Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda on Rama

• Rama gave up his body an joined Sita in the other world.

    - Swami Vivekananda

                                                              

• You have now to make the character of Mahavira your ideal. See how at the command of Ramachandra he crossed the ocean. He had no care for life or death! 

                                         - Swami Vivekananda

• He was a perfect master of his senses and wonderfully sagacious. You have now to build your life on this great ideal of personal service. Through that, all other ideals will gradually manifest in life. Obedience to the Guru without questioning, and strict observance of Brahmacharya — this is the secret of success. As on the one hand Hanuman represent the ideal of service, so on the other hand he represents leonine courage, striking the whole world with awe. He has not the least hesitation in sacrificing his life for the good of Rama. A supreme indifference to everything except the service of Rama, even to the attainment of the status of Brahma and Shiva, the great World - gods! Only the carrying out of Shri Rama's best is the one vow of this life! Such whole - hearted devotion is wanted. 

                                                                             - Swami Vivekananda

• Rama was the soul of the old king; but he was a king, and he could not go back on his word.

                                                                               - Swami Vivekananda

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Swami Vivekananda Quotes On Patience and Perseverance

Swami Vivekananda Quotes On Patience and Perseverance:

• Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.                                                        - Swami Vivekananda  

• Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.                                                                   - Swami Vivekananda  

• "Fortune favours the brave and energetic." Don't look back — forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience — then alone can great deeds be accomplished. We must set the whole world afire.                                                                                                                               - Swami Vivekananda  

• Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.                                                                                                                                                                                        - Swami Vivekananda  

• Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings... We will do great things yet... So long as you have faith and honesty and devotion, everything will prosper.                                                                                                                                                      - Swami Vivekananda  

Quotes On Patience and Perseverance by Swami Vivekananda

• He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.                                                                                                       - Swami Vivekananda  

• Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.                                                                                                        - Swami Vivekananda  

• If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.                                                                                                               - Swami Vivekananda  

• Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.                                                                                                                                                                                           - Swami Vivekananda  

• Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.                                                                                                            - Swami Vivekananda  

• Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.                                                                                            - Swami Vivekananda  

• Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient — wait, wait — patience is bound to give success. . . .                                                                                                                                                                              - Swami Vivekananda  

Vivekananda's Quotes On Patience and Perseverance:

• No need for looking behind. FORWARD! We want infinite energy, infinite zeal, infinite courage, and infinite patience, then only will great things achieved                                                                                        - Swami Vivekananda  

• Nothing else is necessary but these — love, sincerity, and patience.                                                    - Swami Vivekananda    

• Nothing shall be done in haste. Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.                                   - Swami Vivekananda       

• Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!                                                                                                                                                                          - Swami Vivekananda  

• Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.                                                 - Swami Vivekananda  

• Purity, perseverance, and energy— these three I want.                      - Swami Vivekananda  

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

• 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.                                                                                                                                                                               - Swami Vivekananda  

• The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.                                                                                                - Swami Vivekananda  

• The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the right to make others miserable by his foolish acts. Wait, have patience, everything will come right in time.                                                                                     - Swami Vivekananda  

• This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desire for name and fame. Those who know this secret pass beyond this round of birth and death and become immortal.                                                                                                                                                                 - Swami Vivekananda  

Quotes On Patience and Perseverance

• 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.                                                                                                                                    - Swami Vivekananda  

• . . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . .                                                                                                           - Swami Vivekananda  

• Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.                                                                            - Swami Vivekananda  

• We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the universe we never trust and that is God. We trust Him when He works just our way. But the time will come when, getting blow after blow, the self - sufficient mind will die. In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. We are glad that there are so many thorns on the path. They strike the hood of the cobra.                                                                                                                                                                          - Swami Vivekananda  

• When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.                                                                                                                                                               - Swami Vivekananda  

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Swami Vivekananda Quotes On Tantra

Swami Vivekananda Quotes On Tantra:

The real meaning of the word Tantra is Shastra, 
as for example, Kâpila Tantra.

—Swami Vivekananda

• Give up this filthy Vâmâchâra that is killing your country. You have not seen the other parts of India. When I see how much the Vamachara has entered our society, I find it a most disgraceful place with all its boast of culture. These Vamachara sects are honeycombing our society in Bengal. Those who come out in the daytime and preach most loudly about Âchâra, it is they who carry on the horrible debauchery at night and are backed by the most dreadful books. They are ordered by the books to do these things. You who are of Bengal know it. The Bengali Shastras are the Vamachara Tantras. They are published by the cart-load, and you poison the minds of your children with them instead of teaching them your Shrutis. Fathers of Calcutta, do you not feel ashamed that such horrible stuff as these Vamachara Tantras, with translations too, should be put into the hands of your boys and girls, and their minds poisoned, and that they should be brought up with the idea that these are the Shastras of the Hindus? If you are ashamed, take them away from your children, and let them read the true Shastras, the Vedas, the Gita, the Upanishads. 

                                                                 —Swami Vivekananda       

• It was therefore that Shri Ramakrishna came. The days of practising the Tantra in that fashion are gone. He, too, practised the Tantra, but not in that way. Where there is the injunction of drinking wine, he would simply touch his forehead with a drop of it. The Tantrika form of worship is a very slippery ground. Hence I say that this province has had enough of the Tantra. Now it must go beyond. The Vedas should be studied. A harmony of the four kinds of Yogas must be practised and absolute chastity must be preserved.                                                                                                                        —Swami Vivekananda

• In our ordinary lives we are mostly Paurânikas or Tântrikas, and, even where some Vedic texts are used by the Brahmins of India, the adjustment of the texts is mostly not according to the Vedas, but according to the Tantras or the Puranas. As such, to call ourselves Vaidikas in the sense of following the Karma Kanda of the Vedas, I do not think, would be proper. But the other fact stands that we are all of us Vedantists. The people who call themselves Hindus had better be called Vedantists, and, as I have shown you, under that one name Vaidantika come in all our various sects, whether dualists or non-dualists.                                                                                                                 —Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Tantra  Quotes:

• The Purânas, the Tantras, and all the other books, even the Vyasa-Sutras, are of secondary, tertiary authority, but primary are the Vedas. Manu, and the Puranas, and all the other books are to be taken so far as they agree with the authority of the Upanishads, and when they disagree they are to be rejected without mercy.comprising the Karma Kanda, are observed in accordance with the Tantras.                                                                                                                                                                           —Swami Vivekananda

• The Tantras, as we have said, represent the Vedic rituals in a modified form; and before any one jumps into the most absurd conclusions about them, I will advise him to read the Tantras in conjunction with the Brahmanas, especially the Adhvaryu portion. And most of the Mantras, used in the Tantras, will be found taken verbatim from their Brahmanas. As to their influence, apart from the Shrauta and Smârta rituals, all the forms of the rituals in vogue from the Himalayas to the Comorin have been taken from the Tantras, and they direct the worship of the Shâkta, or Shaiva, or Vaishnava, and all the others alike.                                                                                                                                                               —Swami Vivekananda

• The real meaning of the word Tantra is Shastra, as for example, Kâpila Tantra. But the word Tantra is generally used in a limited sense. Under the sway of kings who took up Buddhism and preached broadcast the doctrine of Ahimsâ, the performances of the Vedic Yâga-Yajnas became a thing of the past, and no one could kill any animal in sacrifice for fear of the king. But subsequently amongst the Buddhists themselves — who were converts from Hinduism — the best parts of these Yaga-Yajnas were taken up, and practiced in secret. From these sprang up the Tantras. Barring some of the abominable things in the Tantras, such as the Vâmâchâra etc., the Tantras are not so bad as people are inclined to think. There are many high and sublime Vedantic thoughts in them. In fact, the Brâhmana portions of the Vedas were modified a little and incorporated into the body of the Tantras. All the forms of our worship and the ceremonials of the present day, comprising the Karma Kanda, are observed in accordance with the Tantras.                                                                                                                              —Swami Vivekananda

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Quotes By Swami Vivekananda

Quotes By Swami Vivekananda:

• 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  

• 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.                                                                                                  - Swami Vivekananda  

• 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.

                                                                          - Swami Vivekananda  
Swami Vivekananda Quotes :

Quotes By Swami Vivekananda

• 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.

                                                                         - Swami Vivekananda  

• To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.

                                                                         - Swami Vivekananda  

Swami Vivekananda Motivational Quotes:

• 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 By Swami Vivekananda

• Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work— this is the only way.                                                                         - Swami Vivekananda  

• We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

                                                                   - Swami Vivekananda  

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