Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity. Swami Vivekananda More Quotes by Swami Vivekananda More Quotes From Swami Vivekananda Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted , cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky. Swami Vivekananda weak sky people You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is simply marvellous! Whatever it be, the book is the centre round which human allegiance gathers. Not one religion is living today but has a book. With all its rationalism and tall talk, humanity still clings to the books. In your country every attempt to start a religion without a book has failed. In India sects rise with great success, but within a few years they die down, because there is no book behind them. So in every other country. Swami Vivekananda country book years Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching shows the influence of Buddhism. His disciples perverted his teaching and carried it to such an extreme point that some of the later reformers were right in calling the Acharya's followers "crypto-buddhists". Swami Vivekananda buddhist buddhism teaching What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces. Swami Vivekananda marriage doe men When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply. Swami Vivekananda logical-arguments absolutes thinking Purusha is the; great attraction of the universe; though untouched by and unconnected with the universe, yet it attracts the whole; universe. Swami Vivekananda attraction universe whole The first angle is, love questions not. It is not a beggar. ... When love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship through love. Whether God is merciful is no longer questioned. He is God; He is my love. Whether God is omnipotent and almighty, limited or unlimited , is no longer questioned. Swami Vivekananda real spiritual love-is Experience is the only teacher we have. Swami Vivekananda teacher Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul. Swami Vivekananda inspired soul book Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you can worship. God in His absolute nature is not to be worshipped. Worshipping such God would be nonsense. We have to worship Jesus Christ, the human manifestation, as God. You cannot worship anything higher than the manifestation of God. The sooner you give up the worship of God separate from Christ, the better for you. Swami Vivekananda giving-up men jesus If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground. Swami Vivekananda names fall jesus We never change, we never die, and we are never born. Swami Vivekananda never-change born change From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes. Swami Vivekananda confused men memories It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God! Swami Vivekananda progress evil men The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world. Swami Vivekananda highest world Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life. Swami Vivekananda limits ignorance knowledge All action of Sattva, a modification of Prakriti characterised by light and happiness, is for the soul. When Sattva is free from egoism and illuminated with the pure intelligence of Purusha, it is called the self-centred one, because in that state it becomes independent of all relations. Swami Vivekananda independent light self Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well. Swami Vivekananda matter may talking See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty talks! While the moment you will go to Calcutta, you will be thinking of nasty stuff. Swami Vivekananda air men thinking Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady intellect..." Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Swami Vivekananda mind heart motivational
