All Swami Vivekananda Quotes
- Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other,… All
- Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like… Animal
- Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest sleep. Just those… Almost Stopped
- Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction. Friction
- The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the… All
- Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead. Blood
- To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization… All
- Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour,… Anything Else
- Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless… Been
- Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our… Become Conscious
- Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it. All
- A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need… Becomes
- All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute;… All
- Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is… Briton
- If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control, to attain to… Able
- It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits… Allowed
- Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation. Aim
- Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining,… All
- No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in… Bound
- Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in… Begin
- The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or… Day
- The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control. Brought
- The whole point is to discipline the mind. Discipline
- Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it.… Certain
- Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some… Behind