The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Only love for the Supreme Lord is true Bhakti. Love for any other being, however great, is not Bhakti. The "Supreme Lord"… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Prana, according to the Vedanta, is the principle of life. It is like ether, an omnipresent principle; and all motion, either in… — 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