Swami Vivekananda is one of the most renowned spiritual leaders of the India and the principal disciple of Ramakrishna. Vivekananda was world famous as the foremost spokesperson for Vedanta. Through his numerous poems, letters, quotations and sayings Swami Vivekanand taught the principles of the universe and his teachings are popular even today. His ageless words touch the life of all.
Swami Vivekananda first time represented Hinduism at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893. Following soon after that, he was requested to speak all over America and Europe as well. He was a man of great brilliance and had a tremendous presence.
Making these teachings of swami Vivekananda a part of our lives are these spiritual messages and quotations. These quotes are the words said by the great Vivekananda himself. Each of these sayings brings light to a different aspect of our life. No matter whether old or young, these Vivekananda sayings will bring wisdom and enlighten your life.
- You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
- Strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. Weakness is constant strain and misery; weakness is death.
- Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it only as a picture. We can then enjoy the world without being in any way affected by it.
- A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
- If superstition enters, the brain is gone.
- Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already.You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.
- If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish.
- Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.
- Knowledge can only be got in one way,
the way of experience; there is no other way to know. --Swami Vivekananda
- So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire. --Swami Vivekananda
- All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you.
- In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.
- The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation.
- If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.
- In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.
- If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.
- If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food—then only will the mind be strong.
- Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.
- God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.
- When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates.
- Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through selfless work.
- Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.
- Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom.
