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
All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form".
Change is inherent in every form.
Differentiation is in name and form only.
Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.
Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.
Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.
Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.
Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.
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.
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.
Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal.
Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.
Is God to blame for what I myself have done?