The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings. — 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
Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord'… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do you believe in that Infinite, good Providence working in and through you? If you believe that this Omnipresent One is present… — 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
In every man and in every animal, however weak or wicked, great or small, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“All these small ideas that I am a man or a woman, Sick or healthy, strong or weak Or that I hate… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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 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
A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not say we are weak; we can do anything and everything. What can we not do? Everything can be done by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Of one hundred persons who take up the spiritual life, eighty turn out to be charlatans, fifteen insane, and only five, maybe,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The sum total of all the cells in an organism is one person; so each soul is like one cell and the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one… — 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