The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — 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
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
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
“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
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
I think the Greeks first took astrology to India and took from the Hindus the science of astronomy and carried it back… — 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
All sectarian religions take for granted that all men are equal. This is not warranted by science. There is more difference between… — 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
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
The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great… — 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
Did Buddha teach that the many was real and the ego unreal, while orthodox Hinduism regards the One as the real, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the… — 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
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
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
I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think… — 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
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
Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at… — 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
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
