“The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent.”
“The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image.”
Source: Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living
“There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“This is the work of Nâma-Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea in your mind, is within Maya; for everything that is bound by the laws of time, space, and causation is within Maya.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal.”
Source: Complete Works
“Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.”
Source: Personality Development
“Every Hindu knows that astrologers try to fix the caste of every boy or girl as soon as he or she is born. That is the real caste - the individuality, and Jyotisha (astrology) recognises that. And we can only rise by giving it full sway again. This variety does not mean inequality, nor any special privilege.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the stars, or anything of the sort. In many cases it is simply mind-reading. Sometimes wonderful predictions are made, but in many cases it is arrant trash.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“I think the Greeks first took astrology to India and took from the Hindus the science of astronomy and carried it back with them from Europe. Because in India you will find old altars made according to a certain geometrical plan, and certain things had to be done when the stars were in certain positions, therefore I think the Greeks gave the Hindus astrology, and the Hindus gave them astronomy.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.”
Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy
“The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.”
Source: Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
“The Vedas give information on various subjects. They have come together and form one book. And in later times, when other subjects were separated from religion - when astronomy and astrology were taken out of religion - these subjects, being connected with the Vedas and being ancient, were considered very holy.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“All is bound by the law of causation”
Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action
“All law has its essence in causation.”
Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action
“As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form.”
“Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Everything has a cause.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.”
Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action
“Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“No effect of work can be eternal.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.”
Source: Lectures from Colombo to Almora
“Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The cause being finite, the effect must be finite. If the cause is eternal the effect can be eternal, but all these causes, doing good work, and all other things, are only finite causes, and as such cannot produce infinite result.”
Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy
“The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.”
Source: Complete Works
“The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.”
Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature
“The law of Karma is the law of causation.”
Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited
“The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects.”
Source: Raja Yoga: Art of Living
“The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form”
Source: Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)
“There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.”
Source: Lectures from Colombo to Almora
“Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.”
Source: Selections from Swami Vivekananda
“You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds”
Source: Essentials of Hinduism
“Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.”
Source: Vivekananda Reader
“Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.”
