Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Proclaim the glory of the Atman with the roar of a lion, and impart fearlessness unto all beings by saying, 'Arise, awake,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body… — 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
Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Say - i am the Atman in which my lower ego has become merged for ever. Be perfect in this idea; and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Hate not the most abject sinner, look not to his exterior. Turn thy gaze inward, where resides the Paramatman. Proclaim to the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The weak, the fearful, the ignorant will never reach the Atman. You cannot undo what you have done; the effect must come.… — 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 Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
