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
PRAYER is divine love alone. When this highest ideal of love is reached, philosophy is thrown away. Who will then care of it ? Freedom, salvation, nirvana- all are thrown away. Who cares to become free while in the enjoyment of divine love?
The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
Music alone can take you to the Highest!
Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world.
It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.
Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.
Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.
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.