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
You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.
What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you.
The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.
It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.
Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.
Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.
Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man
WHY should a man be miserable even here in the reign of a just and merciful God?
Those whose only aim is to barter the energies of life for gold, or name, or any other enjoyment; those to whom the tramp of embattled cohorts is the only manifestation of power; those to whom the enjoyment of the senses is the only bliss that life c
When we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is meant by brotherhood or mankind, and not before.
God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted , He Gave Me Everything I Needed.
GOD of truth, be Thou alone my guide
Let new India arise out of peasants cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.