Worship Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.

— Swami Vivekananda

“You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.”

— Swami Vivekananda

The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation.

— Swami Vivekananda

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

— Swami Vivekananda

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

— Swami Vivekananda

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.

— Swami Vivekananda

The idol is the expression of religion.

— Swami Vivekananda

Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize…

— Swami Vivekananda

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.

— Swami Vivekananda

All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of…

— Swami Vivekananda

Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.

— Swami Vivekananda

Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth…

— Swami Vivekananda

“We are allowed to worship him. Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment”

— Swami Vivekananda

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

— Swami Vivekananda

The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.

— Swami Vivekananda

We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture…

— Swami Vivekananda

God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and…

— Swami Vivekananda

We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you... He is…

— Swami Vivekananda

Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit…

— Swami Vivekananda

The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or…

— Swami Vivekananda

Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to…

— Swami Vivekananda

There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar…

— Swami Vivekananda

It is entirely wrong to think that we have done, or can do, good to the world, or to think that we…

— Swami Vivekananda

The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship…

— Swami Vivekananda

He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. "Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou…

— Swami Vivekananda

There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking…

— Swami Vivekananda

Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone…

— Swami Vivekananda

True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion…

— Swami Vivekananda

[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord'…

— Swami Vivekananda

This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God.

— Swami Vivekananda

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

— Swami Vivekananda

If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as…

— Swami Vivekananda

Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to…

— Swami Vivekananda

One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

— Swami Vivekananda

Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not…

— Swami Vivekananda

May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists,…

— Swami Vivekananda

This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of…

— Swami Vivekananda

TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your…

— Swami Vivekananda