Him I call a Mahatma (great soul) whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a Duratma (wicked soul). Let us… — 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
Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those… — 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
This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that's all. I see… — 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
You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Love makes no distinction between man and man, between an Aryan and a Mlechchha, between a Brâhmana and a Pariah, nor even… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have lost faith in ourselves. Therefore to preach the Advaita aspect of the Vedanta is necessary to rouse up the hearts… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the only way to reach the goal, to tell ourselves, and to tell everybody else, that we are divine. And… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Work, my children, work with your whole heart and soul! That is the thing. Mind not the fruit of work. What if… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that… — 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
