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How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Progress, Spread
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God, that intense faith in the immortal soul, is in you. I challenge anyone to give it up. You cannot. You may try to impose upon me by becoming materialists, by talking materialism for a few months, but I know what you are; if I take you by the hand, back you come as good theists as ever were born. How can you change your nature?

Swami Vivekananda
Hands, Talking, Giving

Out of Mahat comes universal egoism.

Swami Vivekananda
Ego, Egoism, Universal
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.862, Manonmani Publishers

Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I talk to you now is as rigorous in causation as that you listen to me. There is no freedom until you go beyond Maya. That is the real freedom of the soul.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Soul, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.948, Manonmani Publishers

Motion is the sign of life.

Swami Vivekananda
Signs Of Life
Vamanananda (Swami.), Arun Kumar Sinha, Swami Vivekananda (1993). “Eternal Platform”

The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.

Swami Vivekananda
Animal, Men, Charity
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.85, SkyLight Paths Publishing

One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.

Swami Vivekananda
Links, Causes, Infinite
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.73, editionNEXT.com

The Absolute is the material of both God and man.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Materials, Absolutes
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3645, Manonmani Publishers

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence

Swami Vivekananda
Ideas, Perfect, Independence
Swami Vivekananda (1986). “Awakened India”

In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is the mother of the universe. It was a female sage who first found the unity of God, and laid down this doctrine in one of the first hy mns of the Vedas. Our God is both personal and absolute, the absolute is male, the personal, female. And thus it comes that we now say: 'The first manifestation of God is the hand that rocks the cradle'.

Swami Vivekananda
Mother, Rocks, Hands
Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.

Swami Vivekananda
Forgiveness, Angel, Fighting
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3688, Manonmani Publishers

Business is business, no child's play.

Swami Vivekananda
Children, Business, Play
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2862, Manonmani Publishers

Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Hero, Goes On

To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere, let them read, let them become familiar with the great principles underlying these ideas, and it is ninety-nine to one that the charm will come over them, and fascination will be the result. Slow and silent, as the gentle dew that falls in the morning, unseen and unheard yet producing a most tremendous result, has been the work of the calm, patient, all-suffering spiritual race upon the world of thought.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Morning, Philosophy
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1041, Manonmani Publishers

Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Body, Wealth

Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.

Swami Vivekananda
World, Pleasure, Depends
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3508, Manonmani Publishers

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

Swami Vivekananda
India, Cobblers, Cottages

The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.

Swami Vivekananda
Patience, Perseverance, Waiting
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1343, Manonmani Publishers

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

Swami Vivekananda
Practice, Firsts
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.20, editionNEXT.com

These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every soul, irrespective of nation, country, or position.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Children, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2011). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.56, Duncan Baird Publishers

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

Swami Vivekananda
Book, Long, Dogma
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.226, SkyLight Paths Publishing

Not only we can, but some have reached perfection; so no matter what finer bodies come, they could only be on the relative plane and could do no more than we, for to attain freedom is all that can be done.

Swami Vivekananda
Perfection, Done, Body
Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent? There is no reason why I should.[Source] The root of that degeneration is egotism - to think that one is just as great as any other, indeed!

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Roots, Ego

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.

Swami Vivekananda
Life Is, Importance
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.33, Vivekananda Kendra

I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, "Hold!" and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Strong, Giving Up
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1143, Manonmani Publishers

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