Swami Vivekananda Selected Sayings and Utterances

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SAYINGS AND UTTERANCES

Volume 5, Sayings and Utterances

 

1. Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

 

2. When you think you are a body, you are apart from the universe; when you

think; you are a soul, you are a spark from the great Eternal Fire; when you

think you are the Âtman (Self), you are All.

 

4. Strength is in goodness, in purity.

 

6. You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

 

15. To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher

materialism.

 

18. As soon as you make a sect, you protest against universal brotherhood.

Those who really feel universal brotherhood do not talk much, but their very

actions speak aloud.

 

28. Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love

all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of

others.

 

31. There is really but one Self in the universe, all else is but Its

manifestations.

 

36. Of all the scriptures of the world it is the Vedas alone that declare

that even the study of the Vedas is secondary. The real study is " that by

which we realise the Unchangeable " . And that is neither reading, for

believing, nor reasoning, but superconscious perception, or Samâdhi.

 

41. Let me die a true Sannyâsin as my Master did, heedless of money, of

women, and of fame! And of these the most insidious is the love of fame!

 

43. " This is a great land, " said Swamiji on one occasion in America, " but I

would not like to live here. Americans think too much of money. They give it

preference over anything else. Your people have much to learn. When your

nation is as old as ours, you will be wiser. "

 

59. Spirituality can never be attained until materiality is gone.

 

67. Never loved a husband the wife for the wife's sake or the wife the

husband for the husband's sake. It is God in the wife the husband loves, and

God in the husband the wife loves. It is God in every one that draws us to

the one we love, God in everything and in everybody that makes us love. God

is the only love.

 

69. In everyone is God, the Atman; all else is but dream, an illusion.

 

Source:

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Om namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram

 

 

 

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Om namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram