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
Differentiation is in name and form only.
Change is inherent in every form.
Anything that is in space has form. Space itself has form. Either you are in space, or space is in you. The soul is beyond all space. Space is in the soul, not the soul in space.
All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form".
A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.
A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.
What is this universe but name and form?
Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.
There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
The real man is the one Unit Existence.
The perfect man sees nothing but God.
The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals
The ignorant man never enjoys.
The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.