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
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.
It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality, background, status.
The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.
A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.
In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
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.
Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.
The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.