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...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.

...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.

Swami Vivekananda
Coward, Sin, Saved
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4013, Manonmani Publishers

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.

Swami Vivekananda
May, Despondency
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.9, editionNEXT.com

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Swami Vivekananda
Power, Errors, Sin
Swami Vivekananda (1935). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

Swami Vivekananda
Marriage, Forget, Wealth
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1865, Manonmani Publishers

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

Swami Vivekananda
Ignorance, Knowledge, Limits
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.55, Manonmani Publishers

Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit.

Swami Vivekananda
Imagination, Meditation, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1638, Manonmani Publishers

Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.

Swami Vivekananda
World, Tests, Abandoned
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

He who wants to become a Bhakta must be strong, must be healthy.

Swami Vivekananda
Strong, Health, Healthy
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion”, p.49, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!

Swami Vivekananda
Blessed, Dust, Practice
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1354, Manonmani Publishers

Alcohol is not the answer to all questions

Swami Vivekananda
Alcohol, Answers

I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.

Swami Vivekananda
Two, Everyday, Saint
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2179, Manonmani Publishers

There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game.

Swami Vivekananda
Boys, Men, Games
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.434, Manonmani Publishers

They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster we go towards death. Those moments alone we live when our lives are in the universe, in others; and living this little life is death, simply death, and that is why the fear of death comes.

Swami Vivekananda
Littles, Life Is, Moments
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.18, editionNEXT.com

Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction towards materialism, which opens the door to scores of exclusive claims, until the time comes when not only all the spiritual powers of the race, but all its material powers and privileges are centred in the hands of a very few; and these few, standing on the necks of the masses of the people, want to rule them. Then society has to help itself, and materialism comes to the rescue.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Men, Race
Swami Vivekananda (1932). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that they possess nothing but God. Who will go? Why should one fear? If this is true, what else could matter? If it is not true, what do our lives matter?

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Twenties, World
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3717, Manonmani Publishers

Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing to have, earn it, says Krishna; struggle hard to get money, but don't get attached to it. So with children, with wife, husband, relatives, fame, everything; you have no need to shun them, only don't get attached. There is only one attachment and that belongs to the Lord, and to none other.

Swami Vivekananda
Children, Husband, Struggle
Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it. This is one phase of my line of thought. In time, I hope to bring them all out, but at present I find I have a mission in this country also. Moreover, I expect help in this country and from here alone. But up to date I could not do anything except spreading my ideas. Now I want that a similar attempt be made in India.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Strong, Moving
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1767, Manonmani Publishers

There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence - "Thou art in the woman, thou in the man, thou in the young man walking in the pride of youth, thou in the old man tottering on his stick - thou art All - in all, in everything, and I am thee, because I am made from thee."

Swami Vivekananda
God, Art, Pride

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, India, Movement
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1849, Manonmani Publishers

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

Swami Vivekananda
Selfish, Generosity, Moral
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.105, Manonmani Publishers

A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain changes in thought, to mind; certain order singly, to causation - and joined to time, to law.

Swami Vivekananda
Order, Law, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1771, Manonmani Publishers

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Work Out, Generations
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2185, Manonmani Publishers

The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Progress, World
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2921, Manonmani Publishers

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Men, Divinity
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.49, Advaita Ashrama

Move onward and carry into practice.

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

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