Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy. Swami Vivekananda More Quotes by Swami Vivekananda More Quotes From Swami Vivekananda Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others. Swami Vivekananda destroyed body blessed I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve. Swami Vivekananda inspiring motivational believe Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us. Swami Vivekananda lazy motivational people 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]. Swami Vivekananda mastery mind facts Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom is a delusion." Idealism says, "The voice that tells of bondage is but a dream." Vedanta says, "We are free and not free at the same time." That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side. The Self is beyond both freedom and bondage. We are Brahman, we are immortal knowledge beyond the senses, we are Bliss Absolute. Swami Vivekananda spiritual dream mean This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world. Swami Vivekananda delusion world Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark. Swami Vivekananda eye motivational inspirational The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it. Swami Vivekananda realizing giving thinking Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us! Swami Vivekananda greed anger names Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health. Swami Vivekananda health body attention Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything. Swami Vivekananda All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite future is before you. Swami Vivekananda strength want past A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future nation can be built. Swami Vivekananda foundation brave motivational 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 perseverance patience men Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing. Swami Vivekananda next goes-on mind We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute. Swami Vivekananda blessed faith believe I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge. Swami Vivekananda indebted mother The one eternal religion is applied to the opinions of various minds and various races. There never was my religion or yours, my national religion or your national religion; there never existed many religions, there is only the one. One infinite religion existed all through eternity and will ever exist, and this religion is expressing itself in various countries in various ways. Swami Vivekananda race mind country It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God. Swami Vivekananda god men inspire Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal. Swami Vivekananda animal men thinking
