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
Swami Vivekananda quotes about
You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.
Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising.
Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.
All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... Stand up and express the Divinity within you.
It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. Therefore, "arise, awake and stop not until the goal is reached.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?
If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite.