Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda
Swami VivekanandaBengali: , Shāmi Bibekānondo; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. He was a major force in the revival of Hinduism in...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth12 January 1863
CountryIndia
Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth.
Motion is the sign of life.
Matter is motion outside, mind is motion inside.
It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion.
In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.
External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.
All motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana.
A point of rest alone explains motion.
A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain changes in thought, to mind; certain order singly, to causation - and joined to time, to law.
There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.
Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.
No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.
One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom
Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.