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Higher Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you…
- Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.
- Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he is the highest…
- "I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation,…
- Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other,…
- 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…
- Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and…
- One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher…
- Too early religious advancement of the Hindus and that superfineness in everything which made them cling to higher alternatives, have reduced them to what they…
- Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith in man, whether…
- There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.
- There is no virtue higher than non-injury.
- To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.
- We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.
- It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one…
- The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.
- To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.
- In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not…
- Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.
- What power is higher than the power of purity?
- It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that…
- The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only…
- Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.
- There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar is far higher…
- Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with…
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