Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Knowing Quotes

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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This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desire for name and fame. Those who know this secret pass beyond this round of birth and death and become immortal.

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He who conquers self conquers all.

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Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

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Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.

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This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.

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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

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All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

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Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

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True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion does not consist in erecting temples, or building churches, or attending public worship. It is not to be found in books, or in words, or in lectures, or in organizations. Religion consists in realization. We must realize God, feel God, see God, talk to God. That is religion.

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Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.

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It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice. What will be the good of cramming the high - sounding dicta of the scriptures? You have first to grasp the teachings of the Shastras, and then to work them out in practical life. Do you understand? This is called practical religion.

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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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Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

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Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

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Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."

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Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.

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No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.

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None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty

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While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.

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