“Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.”
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Famous Swami Vivekananda Quotes
Source: Raja Yoga
Source: Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind
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)
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.”
Source: Complete Works
“Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.”
Source: Complete Works
“Man is the greatest being that ever can be.”
Source: Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park
“Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.”
Source: Complete Works
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.”
Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action
“Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.”
Source: Complete Works
“Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!”
Source: My Life and Mission
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali