Taken Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

12 Taken quotes by Swami Vivekananda

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Vivekananda frames loss in a larger, philosophical context. These twelve reflections weave together his teachings on inner strength and the external forces that test us.

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Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.

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No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of…

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The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.

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Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not,…

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A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one…

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Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let…

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Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life…

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The Vedas give information on various subjects. They have come together and form one book. And in later times, when other subjects…

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Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual fife, fight! Fight as long as there is any…

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Ay! says the Vedanta, it is not the fault of God that this partiality exists, that this competition exists. Who makes it?…

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

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Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the…

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Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

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Above all, India is the land of religion.

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The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.

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It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion.

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Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.

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Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.

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