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
Change is always subjective.
Change is the nature of all objective things.
Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction.
Every change is being forced upon us.
Everybody is changing.
Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.
This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.
This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.
The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.
The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.
Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres.
So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God forms or symbols , names, God-men. All religions have these, but you find that they want to fight with each other...These are the external forms of devotion, through which man has to pass; but if he is sincere , if he really wants to reach the truth , he goes higher than these, to a plane where forms are as nothing.
In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours