Hinduism Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Hinduism is the mother of all religions

— Swami Vivekananda

The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

— Swami Vivekananda

Hindus believe Buddha to be an Avatara.

— Swami Vivekananda

Say it with pride we are Hindus

— Swami Vivekananda

“You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.”

— Swami Vivekananda

“The [original] scriptures of the Hindus are called the Vedas.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.

— Swami Vivekananda

Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!

— Swami Vivekananda

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social…

— Swami Vivekananda

According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.

— Swami Vivekananda

The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.

— Swami Vivekananda

Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance.…

— Swami Vivekananda

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

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

Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Do I wish that the Christian would become Hindu? God forbid. Do I wish that the Hindu or Buddhist would become Christian?…

— Swami Vivekananda

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged…

— Swami Vivekananda

All sectarian religions take for granted that all men are equal. This is not warranted by science. There is more difference between…

— Swami Vivekananda

The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who…

— Swami Vivekananda

He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. "Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou…

— Swami Vivekananda

Did Buddha teach that the many was real and the ego unreal, while orthodox Hinduism regards the One as the real, and…

— Swami Vivekananda

Every Hindu knows that astrologers try to fix the caste of every boy or girl as soon as he or she is…

— Swami Vivekananda

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social…

— Swami Vivekananda

The Lord has declared to the Hindu in His incarnation as Krishna. I am in every religion as the thread through a…

— Swami Vivekananda

As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that…

— Swami Vivekananda

That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you…

— Swami Vivekananda

Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of…

— Swami Vivekananda

“The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor is a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian.…

— Swami Vivekananda

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

— Swami Vivekananda

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

— Swami Vivekananda

Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault.

— Swami Vivekananda

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way…

— Swami Vivekananda

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