Self Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

“You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

— Swami Vivekananda

“He has seen the glory of the Self”

— Swami Vivekananda

Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God.

— Swami Vivekananda

There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.

— Swami Vivekananda

Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self.

— Swami Vivekananda

He who conquers self conquers all.

— Swami Vivekananda

To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but…

— Swami Vivekananda

Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.

— Swami Vivekananda

“and has found that the world, and the gods, and heaven are ... within his own Self.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self -…

— Swami Vivekananda

Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.

— Swami Vivekananda

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

— Swami Vivekananda

Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri…

— Swami Vivekananda

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

— Swami Vivekananda

One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler…

— Swami Vivekananda

Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and…

— Swami Vivekananda

This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells-that there is nothing…

— Swami Vivekananda

The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of…

— Swami Vivekananda

One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.

— Swami Vivekananda

Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps…

— Swami Vivekananda

God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and…

— Swami Vivekananda

If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that…

— Swami Vivekananda

If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free…

— Swami Vivekananda

Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation…

— Swami Vivekananda

It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We…

— Swami Vivekananda

We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one…

— Swami Vivekananda

Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away…

— Swami Vivekananda

You nourish your minds by reading books. There is no good in doing that unless you hold it also as a sacrifice…

— Swami Vivekananda

Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body…

— Swami Vivekananda

Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and…

— Swami Vivekananda

The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is…

— Swami Vivekananda

Man has infinite power within himself, and he can realise it - he can realise himself as the one infinite Self. It…

— Swami Vivekananda

All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have…

— Swami Vivekananda

What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature, O mighty one, and this whole…

— Swami Vivekananda

Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman—all is Atman! Give up the identification…

— Swami Vivekananda

"You are pure and perfect, and what you call sin does not belong to you". Sins are low degrees of Self-manifestation; manifest…

— Swami Vivekananda