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
Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.
Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.
Man is a degeneration of what he was.
Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.
Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.
Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.
Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble.
Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.
Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.
Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature.
Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.
As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion.
According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there is the soul.