Renunciation Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is of the mind.

— Swami Vivekananda

“There is no merit in the renunciation of a beggar.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

— Swami Vivekananda

No freedom without renunciation.

— Swami Vivekananda

There is no end to renunciation.

— Swami Vivekananda

There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.

— Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is in our blood.

— Swami Vivekananda

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.

— Swami Vivekananda

The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love.

— Swami Vivekananda

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

— Swami Vivekananda

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

— Swami Vivekananda

Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless.

— Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.

— Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.

— Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.

— Swami Vivekananda

"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the…

— Swami Vivekananda

A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is…

— Swami Vivekananda

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Buddha gave up his throne and renounced his position, that was true renunciation; but there cannot be any question of renunciation in…

— Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature…

— Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its…

— Swami Vivekananda

Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World -…

— Swami Vivekananda

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all…

— Swami Vivekananda

This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less…

— Swami Vivekananda

Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round…

— Swami Vivekananda

Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again…

— Swami Vivekananda

It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is…

— Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation…

— Swami Vivekananda

Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Vairâgya or renunciation is the turning point in all the various Yogas. The Karmi (worker) renounces the fruits of his work. The…

— Swami Vivekananda

Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation…

— Swami Vivekananda

Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you…

— Swami Vivekananda

There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart.…

— Swami Vivekananda

That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Love makes no distinction between man and man, between an Aryan and a Mlechchha, between a Brâhmana and a Pariah, nor even…

— Swami Vivekananda

Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.

— Swami Vivekananda

What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

— Swami Vivekananda

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand…

— Swami Vivekananda