Quote

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

Swami Vivekananda

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Swami Vivekananda
Age: 39 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 12
Died: 1902
Died: July 4
Clergyman
Monk
Orator
Philosopher
Poet
Spiritual Leader
Teacher
Writer
Inglewood
California
Narendra Nath Datta
Vivekananda
Swamy Vivekananda
Narendranath Datta
Realisation
Practices
Aim
Discipline
Practice
Spiritual
Also
Self

More quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Image
Consciously or unconsciously, health can be transmitted. A very strong man, living with a weak man, will make him a little stronger, whether he knows it or not.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
This life is a hard fact work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine no matter, the soul is stronger.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
The day, man will find that he never really dies that his Soul persists beyond death he will have no more fear of death.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
Everybody is changing.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
Give everything and look for no return.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
This earth is higher than all the heavens this is the greatest school in the universe.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind) and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
Man is a degeneration of what he was.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, O Lord, let the world be full of charitable people! - you mean, let the world be full of beggars also. Let the world be full of good works - let the world be full of misery. This is out-and-out slavishness!
Swami Vivekananda
Image
The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.
Swami Vivekananda
Image
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
Swami Vivekananda