Source: Swami Vivekananda on Himself
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“In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.”
Source: Vivekananda Reader
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Religion in India culminates in freedom.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.”
Source: Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Source: Lectures from Colombo to Almora
Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.”
Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: Vivekananda Reader
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: Raja Yoga: Art of Living
“There is no virtue higher than non-injury.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
Source: The East and the West: (Prachya o Paschatya)
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)
“Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.”
Source: Lectures from Colombo to Almora
“Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.”
Source: Raja Yoga
Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature
Source: Personality Development
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.”
Source: Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park
Source: The Powers of The Mind
Source: Vivekananda Reader
“Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.”
Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature
“Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man is a degeneration of what he was.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man is greater than the gods.”
Source: Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)