Swami Vivekananda — Spiritual Quotes

415 quotes · Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

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Swami Vivekananda Quotes

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Spiritual

“The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures.”

Real Jealous Reign

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Spiritual

“With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?”

Way Long Lust

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Spiritual

“The God which cannot give me food in this world, cannot give me Heaven in the other world”

Giving Heaven

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Spiritual

“Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore!”

Boat Shore

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Spiritual

“Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give this knowledge; is not theory, it is realization. Cleanse the dust from the mirror, purify your own mind, and in a flash you know that you are Brahman.”

Book Mirrors Dust

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Spiritual

“The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".”

Fans India Pariahs

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Spiritual

“The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.”

Mind Firsts

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Spiritual

“Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.”

Body Human Life

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Spiritual

“There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality, of unselfishness, which means getting rid of the idea that human beings are the same as this little body.”

Mean Ideas Struggle

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“First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving.”

Thinking Knowing Meditation

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Spiritual

“The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.”

Religious Tree Awakening

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Spiritual

“Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built. Politics, power, and even intellect form a secondary consideration here. Religion, therefore, is the one consideration in India.”

Heart Rocks Bed

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