Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Quotes — Page 15

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Spiritual

“Whether on the ground of materialism, or of intellect, or of spirituality, the compensation that is given by the Lord to every one impartially is exactly the same. Therefore we must not think that we are the saviours of the world. We can teach the world, a good many things, and we can learn a good many things from it too. We can teach the world only what it is waiting for.”

Thinking Waiting Good Man

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Spiritual

“We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika.”

Real May Idol Worship

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Spiritual

“Renunciation is in our blood.”

Blood Renunciation

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Spiritual

“Infinite strength is religion and God.”

Strength Infinite

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Spiritual

“This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman).”

Self Spiritual Inspiring

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Spiritual

“Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.”

Race Made Ideals

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Spiritual

“Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.”

Real Secret Realisation

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Spiritual

“In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.”

Real Spiritual Yoga

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Spiritual

“To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation-renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.”

Ideas Cutting Chains That Bind

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Spiritual

“Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by work. It is a question of knowledge! You must know what you are, and it is done. The dream vanishes. This you [and others] are dreaming here. When they die, they go to [the] heaven [of their dream]. They live in that dream, and [when it ends], they take a nice body [here], and they are good people.”

Mean Dream Nice

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Spiritual

“One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.”

Mean Mother India

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Spiritual

“Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.”

Dream Mother Jesus

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Swami Vivekananda — Spiritual Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes