Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Best of Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Biography
  • Born: 12th January 1863
  • Birthplace: Calcutta, India
  • Died: 4th July 1902
  • Location of death: Belur Math near Calcutta, India
  • Cause of death: unspecified
  • Remains: Cremated on the banks of Ganga in Belur
  • Childhood name: Narendra Nath Datta
  • Ethnicity: Bengali
  • Occupation: Philosopher
  • Nationality: India
  • Parents: Vishwanath Datta (father) Bhuvaneswari Devi (mother)


We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. 



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 cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.






If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.  



The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.




The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them. 





Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way. 








As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. 






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. 





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. 








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. 







Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. 







The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. 




That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.





When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. 

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for your comments..will definetely try to give some new posts..
    regards
    Bhavani

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