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Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!
Swami Vivekananda
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Swami Vivekananda
Age: 39 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 12
Died: 1902
Died: July 4
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Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.
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Even the least work done for others awakens the power within even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.
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This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.
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We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether the wise ones praise or blame us.
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Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.
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Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.
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What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.
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...oneness is the secret to everything.
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Science, art, learning and metaphysical research all have their proper functions in life, but if you seek to blend them, you destroy their individual characteristics until, in time, you eliminate the spiritual, for instance, from the religious altogether.
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See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place for a Math. (in Belur, West Bengal).
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The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it.
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There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened.
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There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar is far higher than the worship of any dead symbols.
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How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?
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Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities.
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The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.
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The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less the same potentiality is in everyone.
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Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.
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The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.
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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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