Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off! — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Do I wish that the Christian would become Hindu? God forbid. Do I wish that the Hindu or Buddhist would become Christian?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Too early religious advancement of the Hindus and that superfineness in everything which made them cling to higher alternatives, have reduced them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Where is fate and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Hinduism cannot live without Buddhism, nor Buddhism without Hinduism. Then realise what the separation has shown to us, that the Buddhists cannot… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In these days of intellectual awakening and steadily asserting public opinion, the holy places of the Hindus, their condition, and method of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am proud to call myself a Hindu, I am proud that I am one of your unworthy servants. I am proud… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor is a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of… — 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
According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political… — 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
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
Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. 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 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
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