In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth. Swami Vivekananda More Quotes by Swami Vivekananda More Quotes From Swami Vivekananda Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause. Swami Vivekananda mudsufferingmotivational What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment. Swami Vivekananda infinite-timeinfinitemoments All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death. Swami Vivekananda painchangerunning Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else. Swami Vivekananda strongmindmay Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad. Swami Vivekananda giving-upangerart Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time universal. It is while realising our individual nature that we realise even our national and universal nature. Each is an infinite circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. By practice one can feel universal Selfhood which is the essence of Hinduism. He who sees in every being his own Self is a Pandita (sage). Swami Vivekananda circlespracticemen This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father. Swami Vivekananda businessfatherson Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender. Swami Vivekananda serenityselfdesire Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal king, this Rama has been presented before us by the great sage Valmiki. No language can be purer, none chaster, none more beautiful, and at the same time simpler, than the language in which the great poet has depicted the life of Rama. Swami Vivekananda husbandkingsbeautiful There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game. Swami Vivekananda gamesmenboys It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher. Swami Vivekananda sacrificegiving-upzero Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less. Swami Vivekananda regardchangedoe Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round in fear lest at any moment some one may come and drive them out. Instead of that, be a king and know you own the world. This never comes until you give it up and it ceases to bind. Give up mentally, if you do not physically. Give up from the heart of your hearts Swami Vivekananda giving-upkingsdog The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration. Swami Vivekananda vedaskarmaessentials So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them. Swami Vivekananda ignorancemotivationalmen You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself Swami Vivekananda cowardicefearlesscoward That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. Swami Vivekananda motivationalinspirationalmen There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no 'you' or 'me'; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence - God. Swami Vivekananda unityinfinitesoul "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you." Where goest thou to seek for the Kingdom of God, asks Jesus of Nazareth, when it is there, within you? Cleanse the spirit, and it is there. It is already yours. How can you get what is not yours? It is yours by right. You are the heirs of immortality, sons of the Eternal Father. Swami Vivekananda fathersonjesus This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone. Swami Vivekananda undonemiserysuffering
