Yoga Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

— Swami Vivekananda

The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.

— Swami Vivekananda

The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this…

— Swami Vivekananda

Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country…

— 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

“All this bringing of the mind into a higher state of vibration is included in one word in Yoga — Samadhi.”

— Swami Vivekananda

“The next step is Asana, posture. A series of exercises, physical and mental, is to be gone through every day, until certain…

— Swami Vivekananda

Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if…

— Swami Vivekananda

Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is…

— Swami Vivekananda

The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will…

— Swami Vivekananda

Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Most of us make our minds like spoilt children, allowing them to do whatever they want. Therefore it is necessary that Kriya-yoga…

— 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