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
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 ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves.
Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead.
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.
Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.
Weak or wicked, great or small, in men and in animal, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in the soul, but in the manifestation. Between me and the smallest animal the difference is only of manifestation, but as a principle he is the same as I am, he is my brother, he has the same soul as I have. This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.
Spirituality is the science of the Soul.
Say it with pride we are Hindus
In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.