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
Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out? — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To injure another creates bondage and hides the truth. Negative virtues are not enough; we have to conquer Maya, and then she… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages. — 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
