Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: 'Keep yourself holy, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Lord has declared to the Hindu in His incarnation as Krishna. I am in every religion as the thread through a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Philosophy of course is the essence of every religion; mythology explains and illustrates it by means of the more or less legendary… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Of one hundred persons who take up the spiritual life, eighty turn out to be charlatans, fifteen insane, and only five, maybe,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Science, art, learning and metaphysical research all have their proper functions in life, but if you seek to blend them, you destroy… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the… — 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
