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One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Swami Vivekananda

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Swami Vivekananda
Age: 39 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 12
Died: 1902
Died: July 4
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Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.
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Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.
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Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
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In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path
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Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth-Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God.
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To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.
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No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.
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Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.
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Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is righteous.
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The only test of goods things is that they make us strong.
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Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. We are deluded and maddened by books, Shri Krishna declares.
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Freedom can never be true of name and form it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say I am free as a pot only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.
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Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.
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Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.
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The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular it is always after the general, nay, the universal. what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known. That is the one search.
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An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration.
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Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.
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Anything that is in space has form. Space itself has form. Either you are in space, or space is in you. The soul is beyond all space. Space is in the soul, not the soul in space.
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To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself for the man within dies, and God alone remains.
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