Swami Vivekananda Quotes

“Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.”
― Swami Vivekananda

“Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.”
― Swami Vivekananda

“A profound impression was created by the discourses of Professor GN Chakravarti and Mrs Besant, who is said to have risen to unusual heights of eloquence, so exhilarating were the influences of the gathering. Besides those who represented our society and religions, especially Vivekananda, VR Gandhi, Dharmapala, captivated the public, who had only heard of Indian people through the malicious reports of interested missionaries, and were now astounded to see before them and hear men who represented the ideal of spirituality and human perfectibility as taught in their respective sacred writings.”
― Henry Olcott, The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons

“Ekam Sat Vipra Bahudha Vadanti”
― Rig Veda

“A man should not be judged by the nature of his duties, but by the manner in which he does them.”
― Swami Vivekananda , The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda - Eight-Volume Set

“Strebe nach diesem Kuss des Geliebten, dieser Berührung der Lippen, die den bhakta verzückt und ihn in Gott verwandelt. Für denjenigen, der mit einem solchen Kuss gesegnet wurde, verschwinden die Welten, Sonne und Mond vergehen und selbst das Universum schmilzt dahin in einen unendlichen Ozean der Liebe. Das ist die vollkommene Verzückung nondualer Liebe. (The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 3, Lectures from Colombo to Almora, The Sages of India) (S. 208)”
― James Swartz, Yoga der Liebe: Naradas Bhakti Sutra aus der Perspektive des Vedanta

“HINDU religion is nothing more than my PENIS”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Not every man is Swami Vivekananda to learn wisdom from a sex worker and not every woman is Mother Teresa to teach love to a thief”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“I am not Swami Vivekananda to grow HINDU religion, I am Swami Siva Subramani, the TRUTH, the true religion of GOD and the JUSTICE, the real religion of GOD”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Man has infinite power within himself, and he can realise it - he can realise himself as the one infinite Self. It can be done; but you do not believe it. You pray to God and keep your powder dry all the time.
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― Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Go from village to village, do good to humanity and to the world at large.”
― Swami Vivekananda

“When people are discussing as to what man and woman can do, always the same mistake is made. They think they show man at his best because he can fight, for instance, and undergo tremendous physical exertion, and this is pitted against the physical weakness and the non combating quality of woman. This is unjust. Woman is as courageous as man. Each is equally good in his or her way. What man can bring up a child with such patience, endurance, and love as the woman can? The one has developed the "power of doing"; the other, "the power of suffering". If a woman can't act, neither can man suffer. The whole universe is one of perfect balance.

When you are judging man and woman, judge them by the standard of their respective greatness. One can't be in the other's shoes. Then one has no right to say that the other is wicked.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 9 Vols.

“For what is force? - that which moves matter. And what is matter? that which is moved by force.. Like all other basic principles, this is also self contradictory.”
― Swami Vivekananda

“This mind is a part of the universal mind. Each mind is connected with every other mind. And each mind, wherever it is located, is in actual communication with the whole world.
With preparations- not by chance thought transference work. A man wants to send a thought to another mind at a distance, and this other mind knows that a thought is coming, and he received it exactly as it is sent out. Distance makes no difference. But in the ordinary cases, it is not my thought that is reaching you direct; but my thought has got to be dissolved into ethereal vibrations and those ethereal vibrations go into your brain and they have to be resolved again into your own thoughts. This shows that there is a continuity of mind, as the yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are fragments of that universal mind, little waves in the ocean; and on account of this continuity, we can convey our thoughts directly to one another.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 9 Vols.

“There is only one sin. That is weakness. When a boy I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had arny respect only for was Satan. The saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything and determines to die game.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Thoughts on the Gita

“Religion, the common inheritance, the universal birthright of the race, must be brought free to the door of everybody,”
― Swami Vivekananda