It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These institutions have been necessary to protect… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists. — 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
In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I must remark that what I mean by our religion working upon the nations outside of India comprises only the principles, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
. . . If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of… — 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
The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There are men who practice Titiksha, and succeed in it. There are men who sleep on the banks of the Ganga in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“We must also remember that in every little village-god and every little superstitious custom is that which we are accustomed to call… — 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
