Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be Gods. "Be and make." Let this be our motto. Say not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What good is this body? Let it go in helping others. Did not the Master preach until the very end? And shall… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
“there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
