Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is… — 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
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
When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real 'you'. All the gods are little beings to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The first angle is, love questions not. It is not a beggar. ... When love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Motion is always a relative thing. I move in relation to something else. Any particle in this universe can change in relation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about… — 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