Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Quotes — Page 11

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Spiritual

“We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the universe we never trust and that is God. We trust Him when He works just our way. But the time will come when, getting blow after blow, the self - sufficient mind will die. In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. We are glad that there are so many thorns on the path. They strike the hood of the cobra.”

Blow Perseverance Patience

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Spiritual

“Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you should try to root out this devil from your heart. Complete self-surrender is the only way to spiritual illumination.”

Heart Self Spiritual

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Spiritual

“We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.”

Men Higher

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Spiritual

“Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.”

People India

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Spiritual

“To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.”

Mind Religious Importance

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Spiritual

“You know your real nature [to be divine]. You are the king and play you are a beggar. . . . It is all fun. Know it and play. That is all there is to it. Then practice it. The whole universe is a vast play.”

Real Fun Kings

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Spiritual

“The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion. Misery is caused by sin, and by no other cause. What business have you with clouded faces? It is terrible. If you have a clouded face, do not go out that day, shut yourself up in your room. What right have you to carry this disease out into the world?”

Men Religious Cheerful

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Spiritual

“It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the Vedanta declares that one and the same conscious Self is present in all beings. You always criticize the women, but say what have you done for their uplift? Writing down Smritis etc., and binding them by hard rules, the men have turned the women into manufacturing machines! If you do not raise the women, who are living embodiment of the Divine Mother, don’t think that you have any other way to rise.”

Country Mother Uplifting

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Spiritual

“It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify youreslf, and the world is bound to be purified.”

World Growth Subjects

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Spiritual

“The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.”

Littles West Spirituality

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Spiritual

“You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation now, and the next moment you must be ready to go and cultivate the fields. You must be prepared to explain the intricacies of the scriptures now, and the next moment to go and sell the produce of the fields in the market....The true man is he who is strong as strength itself and yet possesses a woman's heart.”

Men Heart Strong

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Spiritual

“Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart.”

Thinking Heart Light

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Swami Vivekananda — Spiritual Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes